Uncle Rico hears voices telling him he's a very bad person. Current thinking is that:
a. He is misperceiving his self-generated thoughts
b. He's misinterpreting some external sound as a voice
c. His sense of hearing is somehow cross-wired with another brain area
d. He has a hypersensitive sense of hearing, and is picking up the insults of his friends in the next room
A
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selective || divided || inattentive || lateralized || || ||
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