If you’ve ever heard something that wasn’t there—an auditory hallucination—you know that the sound seems very, very real. A new study suggests that it’s easy to induce auditory hallucinations in people, but it’s even easier in people who already claim to hear things that aren’t there. The research was published in the journal Science.
Co-author Al Powers is a psychiatric researcher at Yale. Speaking in a study, he said hallucinations “…may arise from an imbalance between our expectations about the environment and the information we get from our senses.”
Full Article: http://mentalfloss.com/article/503503/new-study-shows-its-surprisingly-easy-make-people-have-auditory-hallucinations
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