http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/18/oliver-sacks-on-the-varieties-of-hallucinatory-experience/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/18/oliver-sacks-on-the-varieties-of-hallucinatory-experience/#comment-5328 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:22:35 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/oliver-sacks-on-the-varieties-of-hallucinatory-experience/#comment-5328 He might also be thinking of the parahippocampal place area, which seems to be involved of the encoding of scene-like stimuli – landscapes, rooms etc.
There seems to be some evidence from macaques (“A face feature space in the macaque temporal lobe”, Freiwald, Tsao, & Livingstone, 2009, doi:10.1038/nn.2363) that some cells in the region comparable to human FFA that are at least somewhat feature-selective (e.g. some respond more when irises and/or hair are present than when they are not). But that’s brand new and in macaques, so it won’t be what he’s referring to, and it’s quite a leap to get from there to an explanation for hallucinations in humans!

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