Earworms, those catchy snippets of music that loop in our minds, are a common experience for most people, especially music lovers. Factors like frequency of exposure and familiarity influence their ...

British researchers also found the earworms people experience reflect the reasons why those people listen to music. So if ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

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The cerebral cortex plays a key role in predicting the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memories. A new study shows that networks of neurons, rather than single neurons, are ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it’s where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage, ...

Auditory corollary discharge in the human starts in the bottom, or ventral, part of the motor cortex, a subregion called the precentral gyrus (red), and then moves down across its folds to a ...