"hearing voices": Auditory hallucinations as failure of top-down control of bottom-up perceptual processes

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 553-560

  Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auditory hallucinations; Bottom up; Language; MRI; Schizophrenia; Top down

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HALLUCINATION; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 70450270746     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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