How Hallucinations Make Themselves Heard

the approach used by Ranganath and Paller is not simply the patient’s thoughts) and are usually hostile, as in the following example: in their use of separate blocked recognition conditions to encourage varied retrieval strategies. Rather, the Days later while in the Metropolis again, I was once analysis possible in their study relied both on a manipumore startled by these same pursuers, who had lation of retrieval demands across blocks of trials and threatened me several days before. It was night-time. the use of event-related procedures to isolate correlates As before, I could catch part of their talk, but, in the of individual recognition events. By crossing the two theatre crowds, I could see them nowhere. I heard levels of analysis—examining the effects concerned one of them, a woman, say: “You can’t get away from with the overall strategy (across blocks) and those conus; we’ll lay for you and get you after a while!” To add cerned with individual items (within each block in an to the mystery, one of these “pursuers” repeated my event-related manner)—they were able to distinguish thoughts aloud verbatim. I tried to elude these pursubetween the neural correlates of retrieval effort and ers as before, but this time I tried to escape from success. them by means of subway trains, darting up and down subway exits and entrances, jumping on and off trains, David I. Donaldson and Randy L. Buckner until after midnight. But, at every station where I got Department of Psychology off a train, I heard the voices of these pursuers as Washington University close as ever (L. Percy King, from a letter written in St. Louis, Missouri 63130 the 1940s protesting the writer’s imprisonment in a mental hospital). Selected Reading