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Where the imaginal appears real: A positron emission tomography study of auditory hallucinations

Abstract

An auditory hallucination shares with imaginal hearing the property of being self-generated and with real hearing the experience of the stimulus being an external one. To investigate where in the brain an auditory event is "tagged" as originating from the external world, we used positron emission tomography to identify neural sites activated by both real hearing and hallucinations but not by imaginal hearing. Regional cerebral blood flow was …

Authors

Szechtman H; Woody E; Bowers KS; Nahmias C

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 1956–1960

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Publication Date

February 17, 1998

DOI

10.1073/pnas.95.4.1956

ISSN

0027-8424