A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them. Speaking is one of the most ...

The daily exposure to non-stop music, chat and other sounds may be shaping how you think, decide and cope without you even noticing.

Every day, we speak thousands of words, without rehearsal or hesitation. We order coffee. We soothe a child. We describe a memory, tell a joke, argue, confess, comfort, persuade. To us, speech feels ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...