Congrats again for the sequence! It all fits together nicely.
While it makes sense to exclude hallucinogenic drugs and seizures, at least hallucinogenic drugs seem to fit into the pattern if I understand the effect correctly.
Participants who reported AH in the week preceding the test had a higher false alarm rate in their auditory perception compared with those without such (recent) experiences.
Congrats again for the sequence! It all fits together nicely.
While it makes sense to exclude hallucinogenic drugs and seizures, at least hallucinogenic drugs seem to fit into the pattern if I understand the effect correctly.
Auditory hallucinations, top-down processing and language perception—this paper says that imbalances in top-down cortical regulation is responsible for auditory hallucinations:
And this page Models of psychedelic drug action: modulation of cortical-subcortical circuits says that hallucinogenic drugs lead to such imbalances. So it is plausibly the same mechanism.