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“it’s Time to Hear Our Voices”

Silent Reading: Does the Brain ‘Hear’ Both Speech and Voices?

Silent reading is a private experience that plays out in our imagination. Although we might primarily read for content, recent human brain neuroimaging and neuronal recording work is revealing the inner processes at play. Some of these involve experiencing voices.

Simple coping strategies for people who hear voices.

High levels of stress are common among people who hear voices, but few receive help to cope with the problem. The reason for this appears to be that many mental health nurses are not aware that there are simple coping strategies that could be used to help these people. Some of these are explained in this article. They represent an example of providing person-centred care, which is at the centre...

Monkeys Match the Number of Voices They Hear to the Number of Faces They See

Convergent evidence demonstrates that adult humans possess numerical representations that are independent of language [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6]. Human infants and nonhuman animals can also make purely numerical discriminations, implicating both developmental and evolutionary bases for adult humans' language-independent representations of number [7 and 8]. Recent evidence suggests that the nonverbal...

Hear, Hear for the Zebrafish

Our senses of hearing and balance rely on the function of specialized receptor neurons called "hair cells." In this issue of Neuron, Grant et al. report a series of elegant zebrafish experiments that reveal a previously unappreciated role for glia in the regulation of hair cell proliferation and differentiation. This work is a beautiful example of how zebrafish are particularly useful model sys...