Hearing of a presence

• Published in: Neurocase (ISSN: 1355-4794), vol. 9, num. 4, p. 329-39
• Taylor & Francis, 2003

Here we describe a patient with epilepsy (secondary to left parieto-temporal brain damage) suffering from the paroxysmal unilateral experience of hearing a person in her near extrapersonal space. The paroxysmal auditory experience was associated with a deficit in spatial auditory perception and other paroxysmal disorders of somatognosia. Based on these findings, it is suggested that the paroxysmal hearing of a person nearby corresponds to an auditory disorder of somatognosia.

Reference

• EPFL-ARTICLE-154903
• doi:10.1076/neur.9.4.329.15552

Record created on 2010-11-16, modified on 2017-05-12