Selective auditory attention and silence elicit auditory hallucination in a nonclinical sample

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Knobel, Keila Alessandra Baraldi ^a,c   Sanchez, Tanit Ganz ^b  

^a University of São Paulo Medical School ^*  (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory hallucination; Silence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUSTAINED SILENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549083117     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800802643590     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aleman, A., Bockerc, K. B. E., Hijmanan, R., Haan, E. H. F., & Kahn, R. S. (2003). Cognitive basis of hallucinations in schizophrenia: Role of top-down information processing. Schizophrenia Research, 64, 175-185.
2. American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: APA.
3. Badcock, J., Waters, F., Maybery, M., & Michie, P. (2005). Auditory hallucinations: Failure to inhibit irrelevant memories. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10(2), 125-136.
4. Barrett, T. R. (1993). Verbal hallucinations in normals, II: Self-reported imagery vividness. Personality and Individual Differences, 15, 61-67.
5. Barrett, T. R., & Caylor, M. R. (1998). Verbal hallucinations in normals, V: Perceived reality characteristics. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 209-221.
6. Barrett, T. R., & Etheridge, J. B. (1992). Verbal hallucinations in normals, I: People who hear "voices". Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 379-387.
7. Barrett, T. R., & Etheridge, J. B. (1994). Verbal hallucinations in normals, III: Dysfunctional personality correlates. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 57-62.
8. Bauer, C. (2004). Mechanisms of tinnitus generation. Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 12, 413-417.
9. Behrendt, R., & Young, C. (2004). Hallucinations in schizophrenia, sensory impairment, and brain disease: A unifying model. Behavior and Brain Science, 27(6), 771-830.
10. Bentall, R. P., & Slade, P. D. (1985). Reliability of a scale measuring disposition towards hallucinations: A brief report. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 527-529.
11. Bunzeck, N., Wuestenberg, T., Lutz, K., Heinze, H., & Jancke, L. (2005). Scanning silence: Mental imagery of complex sounds. NeuroImage, 26, 1119-1127.
12. Choong, C., Hunter, M. D., & Woodruff, W. R. (2007). Auditory hallucinations in those populations that do not suffer from schizophrenia. Current Psychiatry Report, 9(3), 206-212.
13. Cole, M. G., Dowson, L., Dendukuri, N., & Belzile, E. T. (2002). The prevalence and phenomenology of auditory hallucinations among elderly subjects attending an audiology clinic. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 444-452.
14. Eggermont, J. J. (2003). Central tinnitus. Auris Nasus Larynx, 30, S7-S12.
15. Evers, S., & Ellger, T. (2004). The clinical spectrum of musical hallucinations. Journal of Neurological Science, 227, 55-65.
16. Frith, C., Perry, R., & Lumer, E. (1999). The neural correlates of conscious experience: An experimental framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3(3), 105-114.
17. Gazzaley, A., Cooney, J. W., McEvoy, K., Knight, R. T., & D'Esposito, M. (2005). Top-down enhancement and suppression of the magnitude and speed of neuro activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(3), 505-517.
18. Griffiths, T. D. (2000). Musical hallucinosis in acquired deafness: Phenomenology and brain substrate. Brain, 123, 2065-2076.
19. Grossberg, S. (2000). How hallucinations may arise from brain mechanisms of learning, attention, and volition. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 6, 583-592.
20. Heller, M. F., & Bergman, M. (1953). Tinnitus aurium in normally hearing persons. Annals of Otology, 62, 73-83.
21. Hoshiyama, M., Gunji, A., & Kakigi, R. (2001). Hearing the sound of silence: A magnetoencephalographic study. Neuroreport, 12(6), 1097-1102.
22. Hunter, M. D., Eickhoff, S. B., Miller, T. W., Farrow, T. F., Wilkinson, I. D., & Woodruff, P. W. (2006). Neural activity in speech-sensitive auditory cortex during silence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 103, 189-194.
23. Johns, L. C., Hemsley, D., & Kuipers, E. (2002). A comparison of auditory hallucinations in a psychiatric and non-psychiatric group. British Journal of Clinic Psychology, 41, 81-86.
24. Keshavan, M. S., David, A. S., Steingard, S., & Lishman, W. A. (1992). Musical hallucinosis: A review and synthesis. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavior Neurology, 5, 211-223.
25. King, A. J. (2006). Auditory neuroscience: Activating the cortex without sound. Current Biology, 16(11), 2.
26. Knobel, K. A. B., & Sanchez, T. G. (2008). Influence of silence and attention on tinnitus perception. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 138, 18-22.
27. Lennox, B. R., Bert, S., Park, G., Jones, P. B., & Morris, P. G. (1999). Spatial and temporal mapping of neural activity associated with auditory hallucinations. Lancet, 353, 644.
28. Margo, A., Hemsley, D. R., & Slade, P. D. (1981). The effects of varying auditory input on schizophrenic hallucinations. British Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 122-127.
29. Millham, E. (1998). Prevalence of auditory hallucinations in nurses in mental health. Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing, 5(2), 95-99.
30. Nam, E. (2005). Is it necessary to differentiate tinnitus from auditory hallucination in schizophrenic patients? Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 119, 352-355.
31. Paulik, G., Badcock, J. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2008). Dissociating the components of inhibitory control involved in predisposition to hallucinations. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(1), 33-46.
32. Posey, T. B., & Losch, M. E. (1983). Auditory hallucinations of hearing voices in 375 normal subjects. Imagination. Cognition and Personality, 3, 99-113.
33. Rodrigo, A. M. L., Piñeiro, M. M. P., Suárez, P. C. M., Caro, M. I., & Giráldez, S. L. (1997). Hallucinations in a normal population: Imagery and personality influences. Psychology in Spain, 1(1), 10-16.
34. Slade, P. D., & Bentall, R. P. (1988). Sensory deception: A scientific analysis of hallucination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
35. Tien, A. Y. (1991). Distributions of hallucinations in the population. Society of Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26(6), 287-292.
36. Tucker, D. A., Phillips, S. L., Ruth, R. A., Clayton, W. A., Royster, E., & Todd, A. D. (2005). The effect of silence on tinnitus perception. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 132(1), 20-24.
37. Voisin, J., Bidet-Caulet, A., Bertrand, O., & Fonlupt, P. (2006). Listening in silence activates auditory areas: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(1), 273-278.
38. Wang, J., Ding, D., & Salvi, R. J. (2002). Functional reorganization in chinchilla inferior colliculus associated with chronic and acute cochlear damage. Hearing Research, 168, 238-249.
39. Weiss, A. P., & Heckers, S. (1999). Neuroimaging of hallucinations: A review of the literature. Psychiatry Research, 92, 61-74.
40. Young, H. F., Bentall, R. P., Slade, P. D., & Dewey, M. E. (1986). Disposition towards hallucination, gender and IQ scores. Personality and Individual Differences, 7, 247-249.