Auditory Hypergnosia as an Example of Psychic Tonus in the Temporal Lobes: Multiple Case Analyses
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2006, Braun proposed a new model of hemispheric specialization of energy management by the brain, which he termed the "psychic tonus" model of hemispheric specialization. The term "psychic tonus" is deliberately general. It invites further investigation designed to incorporate various behavioral and cognitive modalities. At present, any cognitive operation or behavior likely to require energy expenditure, such as cardiovascular or metabolic, is considered to be at one extreme while any cognitive operation or behavior likely to reduce energy expenditure is considered to be at the other extreme. The model states that the left hemisphere of the brain is specialized to increase psychic tonus and the right to decrease it. The model predicts that the tonus of auditory representation ought to also manifest these hemispheric specializations in the temporal lobes. Specifically, it was predicted that pathological positive auditory tonus (auditory hallucination) ought to be associated more frequently with right temporal lobe lesions. Our analysis of a large number of previously published cases of patients with unilateral lesions supports the prediction.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.037 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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