ReviewFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2014
What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia.
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- Stereopsis deficits in schizophrenia: a systematic review with exploratory meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The role of sleep dysfunction in the occurrence of delusions and hallucinations: A systematic review.Clinical psychology review · 2015Pooled it
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- Positive and negative hysteresis effects for the perception of geometric and emotional ambiguities.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Serotonin biology as a basis for explaining psychedelic drug action.Current biology : CB · 2026Review
- The role of attention in perceptual biases in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder and healthy controls.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Social expectations in early-stage psychosis: Less stereotypical facial expression predictions.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Preserved contextual modulation of eye movements in psychosis prone individuals.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Acute technostress, schizotypal traits, and visual illusion perception in the general population.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Reduced weighting of short-term perceptual priors during auditory perceptual decision-making in psychosis-prone individuals.BMC biology · 2025Article
- The glare illusion in individuals with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor hypofunction causes recurrent and transient failures of perceptual inference.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Intact Serial Dependence in Schizophrenia: Evidence from an Orientation Adjustment Task.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Attentional biases, as measured by motion-induced blindness, are linked to schizophrenia traits.PloS one · 2025Article
- Depth inversion illusion and its relationship to positive symptoms in clinical and non-clinical voice hearers.Cognitive neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- Faster bi-stable visual switching in psychosis.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Reduced influence of perceptual context in mild traumatic brain injury is not an illusion.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Gaze of Schizophrenia Patients Captured by Bottom-up Saliency.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Meaningfulness and attachment: what dreams, psychosis and psychedelic states tell us about our need for connection.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Illusion, namely a mismatch between the objective and perceived properties of an object present in the environment, is a common feature of visual perception, both in normal and pathological conditions. This makes illusion a valuable tool with which to explore normal perception and its impairments. Although still debated, the hypothesis of a modified, and typically diminished, susceptibility to illusions in schizophrenia patients is supported by a growing number of studies. The current paper aimed to review how illusions have been used to explore and reveal the core features of visual perception in schizophrenia from a psychophysical, neurophysiological and functional point of view. We propose an integration of these findings into a common hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. The Bayesian formalism considers perception as the optimal combination between sensory evidence and prior knowledge, thereby highlighting the interweaving of perceptions and beliefs. Notably, it offers a holistic and convincing explanation for the perceptual changes observed in schizophrenia that might be ideally tested using illusory paradigms, as well as potential paths to explore neural mechanisms. Implications for psychopathology (in terms of positive symptoms, subjective experience or behavior disruptions) are critically discussed.
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