Photo: Dean Carruthers
A conference called Mind's Ear and Inner Voice will examine the different ways people hear sounds in their heads - from a music earworm, to a loved-ones' voice...to hearing nothing at all - and how sounds, or lack of them help with creative processes.
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Auckland, Tony Lambert is the conference organiser and Principal Investigator of a condition called Anauralia coined by scientists from University of Auckland to describe the little-known condition of a silent mind.
Mind's Ear and Inner Voice runs at the University of Auckland from 14-16 April.
