Sound of silence activates auditory cortex
Open Access
- 9 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 434 (7030), 158
- https://doi.org/10.1038/434158a
Abstract
Auditory imagery occurs when one mentally rehearses telephone numbers or has a song ‘on the brain’ — it is the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation, and is useful for investigating aspects of human cognition1. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify and characterize the neural substrates that support unprompted auditory imagery and find that auditory and visual imagery seem to obey similar basic neural principles.Keywords
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