Auditory Hallucinations of Hearing Voices in 375 Normal Subjects
Imagination Cognition and Personality October 1, 1983 Thomas B. Posey, Mary E. Losch 253 citations
Jaynes' elaborate theory of the evolution of human consciousness speculates that unconscious language use by the right hemisphere produced frequent auditory hallucinations in primitive people [1]. Jaynes offers some explanation as to why hearing voices would now be less common. It is parsimonious, however, to predict that hearing voices is still common, although usually unreported, in the...