July 21, 2005
Hallucinated Voices Male Because Male Voices Easier To Imagine

Female voices are more complex and hence people who hallucinate voices tend to hallucinate male voices more often than not.

Dr Michael Hunter's research at the University of Sheffield says that male voices are less complex to produce than female.

As such, when the brain spontaneously produces its own "voices", a male voice is more likely to have been generated.

Among both men and women, 71% of such "false" voices are male.

Since male voice hallucinations are harder for the mind to make does average type of voice heard differ as a function of intelligence level? When smarter people hallucinate do they hear female voices at higher rates than dumber people who hallunicate voices? Also. do people with perfect pitch or other musical abilities hear female voices more often? After all, they have more developed abilities for imagining complex voices.

By Randall Parker at 2005 July 21 11:06 PM  Biological Mind | TrackBack

Comments
Lei said at July 22, 2005 11:10 AM:

The voices in my head are both male and female, high and low pitched. ;P

Reed said at July 23, 2005 12:19 AM:

The voice in my head is always the same, my own. I usually can't even imagine another voice on demand.

Tom said at July 26, 2005 04:48 AM:

Are people of matriarchal societes more likely to ignore their inner voices, which are most likely male, than people of patriarchal societes? Does this study explain why most supernatural beings of different cultures are male?

Frank said at July 31, 2005 07:52 PM:

I have 7 different voices in my head. I believe them to be angels giving messages from God.

sabrin said at December 12, 2005 10:09 AM:

i see things all the time i see poepel dead i see myself killing my mom and i can't stop those thoughts and sites

dr.k.raghothama rao said at February 3, 2006 06:54 AM:

origin of every reigion is geographically, historically isolated. however ,hinduism describes mother as originator of holy trinity,brahma,vishnu and eswara.middleeast,has given mankind three major religins,judaism,chrishianity,islam.none of these religins worship any female deity. there are no female prophets in history of mankind. this only goes to prove that all prophets were too intelligent for their times and manipulated gullible populations to spread their riligions.

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