title: The neurophysiology of auditory hallucinations - a historical and contemporary review.
abstract: Electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography are two techniques that distinguish themselves from other neuroimaging methodologies through their ability to directly measure brain-related activity and their high temporal resolution. A large body of research has applied these techniques to study auditory hallucinations. Across a variety of approaches, the left superior temporal cortex is consistently reported to be involved in this symptom. Moreover, there is increasing evidence that a failure in corollary discharge, i.e., a neural signal originating in frontal speech areas that indicates to sensory areas that forthcoming thought is self-generated, may underlie the experience of auditory hallucinations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Remko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Lutterveld
authors.forename: Iris E C
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ford