Subject: Re: Qualitative research on musical hallucinations? From: Lassi A Liikkanen <lassial(at)HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:12:20 +0200I thank everyone who gave some tips and insights to the subject. For a moment it really seemed that the phenomenon has not been investigated at all. But then, accidentially I found it. Prof. James J. Kellaris had made two publications, in 2001 and 2003 concerning this subject. References can be found in his homepage, http://www.business.uc.edu/James-Kellaris And his interview and some sort of summary of his findings thru BBC news, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3221499.stm Highlights: "Across surveys I found that from 97% to 99% of the population is susceptible..." "some people are more susceptible than others. Women tend to be more susceptible than men, and musicians are more susceptible to them than non-musicians" Exactly what I was looking for! His study seem to be in some sort of margin of psychological research and that is too bad, as the publication medium ( Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology) is not very recognized journal (at least from my horizon) and this leads to depressing fact that this publication is out of my reach as I've not managed to get in touch with author via email. But if anyone else is interested, this may help you to find out more. There few other interview based summaries in the online new services, but BBC was the most comprehensive. thanks, Mr. Lassi A. Liikkanen dpt of Psychology University of Helsinki Finland _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail