Hearing of a presence.
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.
Blanke
Olaf
O
Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. olaf.blanke@hcuge.ch
Ortigue
Stéphanie
S
Coeytaux
Alessandra
A
Martory
Marie-Dominique
MD
Landis
Theodor
T
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