Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: The Neural Basis
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 11:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Building on work done by Dominic ffytche et al in 2000, which delineates more than a dozen types of hallucinations, particularly in relation to people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (a condition that causes patients with visual loss to have complex visual hallucinations), a new paper in Brain outlines case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations. While ffytche believes that hallucinations of musical notation are rarer than some other types of visual hallucination, Professor Oliver Sacks M.D. details eight examples of people who have reported experiencing hallucinations of musical notation, including: read more