Auditory Imagery in the Brain with fMRI

Auditory imagery activates brain areas linked to hearing, and this experiment uses functional MRI, or fMRI, to study those patterns. The goal is to see how the brain responds when a person imagines sounds in the “mind’s ear.”

Research suggests that imagination can use some of the same brain syste...

Auditory imagery is a process that gives rise to the experience of hearing sounds, even when there are no external auditory stimuli present.

For instance, think about hearing the sound of a cell phone ringing. While information within memory underlies this imaginary event, evidence suggests that an individual?s brain uses the same mechanis...