The extent to which people experience “inner speech” varies greatly, and the differences matter for performing certain cognitive tasks

Hearing songs tied to meaningful events activates memory and reward centers in the brain and could even aid Alzheimer’s disease treatment

Researchers found that interoceptive awareness—the ability to sense internal bodily states—predicts whether people’s moral judgments match group norms. Brain scans revealed that resting-state activity in specific brain regions mediates this relationship.

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By mapping brain activity like a moving weather system, researchers found that psychedelics consistently reduce the upward flow of sensory information into higher-order brain regions, offering new biological clues into how these drugs alter human consciousness.