title: Hearing of a presence.
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.
authors.affiliation: Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. olaf.blanke@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Blanke
authors.forename: Stéphanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ortigue
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coeytaux
authors.forename: Marie-Dominique
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Martory
authors.forename: Theodor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Landis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000209:etiology; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D001828:Body Image; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology