Subject: Qualitative research on musical hallucinations? From: Lassi A Liikkanen <lassial(at)HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:25:39 +0200or should I say concerning... musical pseudohallucinations or involuntarily evoked musical representations or "can't get that tune out of my head" -phenomenon (or musical Charles Bonnett syndrome ) is that sort of research being done? As I'm new to this list, a brief introduction, I'm a cognitive science student, currently preparing a thesis about activated musical representations and studies about them in cognitive neuroscience and contemporary psychiatry. I'd like to know, if someone has conducted a large scale qualitative study concerning the commonality of the phenomenon which I don't know the proper name. I'm talking about the experiences of hearing music inside your head and knowing that is in there. In contrast with musical Charles Bonnett syndrome (or what has been proposed to be that), people experiencing this phenomena usually have nor have hearing deficits neither experience any other psychologically alarming phenomena. Looking back at the maillist archives I found http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2002/msg00283.html stating "I have had tunes hung in my head before, which I suppose is very common." But just how common is this? I must point out that after reviewing clinical articles about musical hallucinations (or hallucinosis) the distinction between clininal condition and otherwise healthy subjects is not too obvious. Indeed, in some cases the elderly have been put on a medication with symptoms not markedly differing from the state of "healthy" subjects hearing "tunes in their heads" I'm exaggerating, but in lack of real studies with healthy people it is impossible to say. The whole thread of messages back in 2002 was interesting, especially clarifying was http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2002/msg00304.html Any hints would be greatly appreciated! You can reach me via email also in my universities mail address which consists of eight first letters (liikkane) of my surname and the prefix (at)helsinki.fi Mr. Lassi A. Liikkanen student of Cognitive Science dpt. of Psychology University of Helsinki Finland _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail