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Hearing of a presence
Olaf Blanke1, Stéphanie Ortigue, Alessandra Coeytaux
1Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. olaf.blanke@hcuge.ch
Neurocase
|August 20, 2003
Abstract:
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.