BACKGROUND The nosological status of auditory hallucinations in non-clinical samples is unclear. AIMS To investigate the functional neural basis of non-clinical hallucinations. METHOD After selection from 1206 people, 68 participants of high, medium and low hallucination proneness completed a task designed to elicit verbal hallucinatory phenomena under conditions of stimulus degradation. Ei...

We introduce a mixed-initiative approach for document reconstruction that can significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required to reassemble a document from shredded pieces or an artifact from broken fragments. We focus in particular on the hardest subproblem, which is the problem of identifying a matching neighbor for any given piece. Our approach, called hallucination, combines hum...

BACKGROUND Hypnotic susceptibility is one of the stable characteristics of individuals, but not closely related to the personality traits such as those measured by the five-factor model in the general population. Whether it is related to the personality disorder functioning styles remains unanswered. METHODS In 77 patients with personality disorders and 154 healthy volunteers, we administered...

Fuzzy metric temporal logic (FMTL) and situation graph trees (SGTs) have been shown to be promising tools in high-level situation recognition. They generate semantic descriptions from numeric perceptual data. FMTL and SGTs allow for sophisticated and universally applicable rule-based expert systems. Dealing with incomplete data is still a challenging task for rule-based systems. The FMTL/SGT sy...

The "psychic tonus" model or PTM [1] of hemispheric specialization states that the left hemisphere is a psychic and behavioral activator and that the right hemisphere is an inhibitor. The PTM predicts that the tonus of visual representation ought to manifest hemispheric specialization in the occipital lobes. Specifically PTM predicts that pathological positive visual tonus (visual hallucination...

A new manifold learning method, called nearest feature line (NFL) embedding, for face hallucination is proposed. While many manifold learning based face hallucination algorithms have been proposed in recent years, most of them apply the conventional nearest neighbour metric to derive the subspace and may not effectively characterise the geometrical information of the samples, especially when th...

Inner speaking, the covert talking that goes on inside a person's mind, can shape creative thought. How phenomenological properties and quality of inner speaking correlate with potential, however, is an open scientific problem. To explore this, participants ( n = 267) filled in revised Varieties Speech Questionnaire Launay Slade Hallucination Scale (auditory subscale), performed three tests pot...