Researchers in Switzerland have developed a technique that uses a robot to trigger auditory hallucinations in healthy people. They want to investigate the causes of this common problem among people with psychiatric illnesses in order to develop possible treatments

Scientists have “no idea what happens in the brain when people have auditory hallucinations”, explains neuroscientist Pavo Orepic from the University of Geneva.

Together with a team of researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva, he published a study on this subject in October in the medical journal Psychological Medicine. …