Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects a person's ability to think and behave precisely. A particular brain area which is involved in an auditory verbal hallucination in schizophrenia ...

We examine the functional characteristics of auditory cortical areas that are sensitive to spatial cues in the human brain, and determine whether they can be dissociated from parietal lobe mechanisms.

A new imaging study suggests that cortical areas activated during sound-localization tasks also require that sound sources be distinguishable by their spectral or temporal features. The scene is an ...

Auditory hallucinations involve hearing sounds that have no source or observable cause. It is common in several conditions. Treatment entails addressing the underlying cause. For instance, if the ...

There are some universal truths we learn: the sky is blue, the grass is green, and weekends are never long enough. For neuroscientists, another accepted dogma is that the inferior colliculus (IC) ...