#83. Unseen, Unheard, Yet a Clear Sense of Another’s Presence

Ben Alderson-Day is a professor of psychology at Durham University in the UK, researching the phenomena of voice-hearing and unusual sensory experiences. Specializing in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and child development. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research group, a network comprising 24 countries. Before moving to Durham he completed a PhD on autism at the University of Edinburgh, and worked as a research coordinator for a child & adolescent mental health research team for the National Health Service (NHS) in York. He is the author of PRESENCE: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other, which is the topic of today’s interview.

Recorded 2/13/24.