Dichotic listening in college students who report auditory hallucinations

College students were placed in 2 groups, hallucinators and nonhallucinator s, on the basis of their responses to a verbal hallucinations questionnaire . Both groups were given a consonant-vowel version of a Dichotic Listening Test under 3 conditions: nonforced, forced-right, and forced-left. When hal lucinators were instructed to attend to the left ear stimuli (forced-left c ondition), they had fewer correct responses to right ear syllables than did nonhallucinators. This resulted in a left ear advantage for hallucinators. When nonhallucinators were instructed to attend to the left ear, they main tained a right ear advantage. Results suggest that auditory hallucinations in college students are associated with differences in hemispheric function ing.