AUTHOR=van Lutterveld Remko , Sommer Iris E., Ford Judith M. TITLE=The Neurophysiology of Auditory Hallucinations – A Historical and Contemporary Review JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry VOLUME=2 YEAR=2011 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00028 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00028 ISSN=1664-0640 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.