Cognitive and neural processes in non-clinical auditory hallucinations
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BACKGROUND: The nosological status of auditory hallucinations in non-clinical samples is unclear. AIMS: To investigate the functional neural basis of non-clinical hallucinations. METHOD: After selection from 1206 people, 68 participants of high, medium and low hallucination proneness completed a task designed to elicit verbal hallucinatory phenomena under conditions of stimulus degradation. Eight subjects who reported hearing a voice when none was present repeated the task during functional imaging. RESULTS: During the signal detection task, the high hallucination-prone participants reported a voice to be present when it was not (false alarms) significantly more often than the average or low participants (P<0.03, d.f.=2). On functional magnetic resonance imaging, patterns of activation during these false alarms showed activation in the superior and middle temporal cortex (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Auditory hallucinatory experiences reported in non-clinical samples appear to be mediated by similar patterns of cerebral activation as found during hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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The superior temporal gyrus is implicated in the creation of false alarms on auditory signal detection tasks.
“More recent neuroimaging studies using auditory signal detection tasks have implicated, among other areas, the STG in the creation of false alarms (responding ‘yes’ when there is no voice present) (Barkus et al., 2007)”
From Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option (2013) · cites this paper as Barkus et al., 2007
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- Authors
- Barkus, E., Stirling, J., Hopkins, R., McKie, S., & Lewis, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lewis, Shôn
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 191
- Issue
- S51
- Pages
- s76-s81
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2088842004
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 23
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- FWCI
- 2.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) (acceptedVersion)
- Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Stanley Medical Research Institute
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- auditory hallucinations, hallucination proneness, verbal hallucinations, stimulus degradation, signal detection, false alarms, superior temporal cortex, middle temporal cortex, schizophrenia
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Auditory Perceptual Disorders, Brain Mapping, Female, Hallucinations, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Marijuana Smoking, Reaction Time, Schizophrenic Psychology, Temporal Lobe, Signal Detection, Psychological
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