You wake up to your partner telling you that you had an entire conversation with someone named Bob last night, or your roommate mentions you were giving what sounded like a presentation in your sleep.

John Spencer receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which ...

Somniloquy, also known as sleep talking, is a sleep disorder characterized by unconscious or unintentional talk while asleep. Somniloquy is a type of parasomnia, which is usually uncontrollable such ...

How much of our self-identity is maintained by talking? And how do our relationships depend on verbal communication? One powerful way to answer these questions is to stop talking for a while and ...