Re: advice Re: auditory illusions (Bob Masta )


Subject: Re: advice Re: auditory illusions
From:    Bob Masta  <audio(at)DAQARTA.COM>
Date:    Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:00:55 -0400

Anyone know what "white christmas type effects" are? Best regards, Bob Masta ------------------------------------------------------------ On 13 Jul 2005 at 10:02, Stuart Rosen wrote: > Dear list, > > I have received this inquiry and thought you all might be able to make > suggestions. Please respond directly to Sukhi Shergill > <S.Shergill(at)iop.kcl.ac.uk> and optionally to the whole list. Thank you for > any help -- > > Stuart Rosen > > ---------------------------------------------- > From: S.Shergill(at)iop.kcl.ac.uk [mailto:S.Shergill(at)iop.kcl.ac.uk] > Subject: advice Re: auditory illusions > > i'm a psychiatrist interested in psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia - > particularly auditory hallucinations. I was considering whether the > examination of perception of auditory illusions may provide an inroad or a > proxy mechanism in healthy subjects (which may help with understanding > deficits in schizophrenia). In the recent past I've been looking at > hallucinations, and some language based tasks, with functional neuroimaging > and wanted to extend this work. > > >From my rather niaive reading of the literature - there weren't any > spectacular publicly convincing illusions that pepper the visual literature. > so one is left with verbal transformation effects, substitution of parts of > a word with white noise, possible sound localisation illusions with dichotic > listening, and listening for "white christmas type effects" in white noise. > It was difficult for me to easily transfer these into a proxy for > hallucinatory effect. > > Please be kind enough to suggest some further reading, or to point out any > potentially fruitful areas that i may not have seen. > > very best wishes > sukhi > > > _______________________________ > Dr. Sukhi S Shergill > BSc MB BS PhD MRCPsych > > >


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