ArticleCognition2016
The effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in hallucination-prone individuals.
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- Neurocognitive bases of self-monitoring of inner speech in hallucination prone individuals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Speech Illusions in People at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Linked to Clinical Outcome.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Investigating the lateralisation of experimentally induced auditory verbal hallucinations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Mechanisms Associated With Clinical and Nonclinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Imagery adds stimulus-specific sensory evidence to perceptual detection.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Mistaking imagination for reality: Congruent mental imagery leads to more liberal perceptual detection.Cognition · 2021Article
- Reconciling competing mechanisms posited to underlie auditory verbal hallucinations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Similar EEG Activity Patterns During Experimentally-Induced Auditory Illusions and Veridical Perceptions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Auditory hallucinations, top-down processing and language perception: a general population study.Psychological medicine · 2019Article
- Intentional inhibition but not source memory is related to hallucination-proneness and intrusive thoughts in a university sample.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- Imaginary Companions, Inner Speech, and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: What Are the Relations?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring.Neuropsychologia · 2018Article
- Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Impaired Self-Monitoring of Inner Speech in Schizophrenia Patients with Verbal Hallucinations and in Non-clinical Individuals Prone to Hallucinations.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Cognitive models have suggested that auditory hallucinations occur when internal mental events, such as inner speech or auditory verbal imagery (AVI), are misattributed to an external source. This has been supported by numerous studies indicating that individuals who experience hallucinations tend to perform in a biased manner on tasks that require them to distinguish self-generated from non-self-generated perceptions. However, these tasks have typically been of limited relevance to inner speech models of hallucinations, because they have not manipulated the AVI that participants used during the task. Here, a new paradigm was employed to investigate the interaction between imagery and perception, in which a healthy, non-clinical sample of participants were instructed to use AVI whilst completing an auditory signal detection task. It was hypothesized that AVI-usage would cause participants to perform in a biased manner, therefore falsely detecting more voices in bursts of noise. In Experiment 1, when cued to generate AVI, highly hallucination-prone participants showed a lower response bias than when performing a standard signal detection task, being more willing to report the presence of a voice in the noise. Participants not prone to hallucinations performed no differently between the two conditions. In Experiment 2, participants were not specifically instructed to use AVI, but retrospectively reported how often they engaged in AVI during the task. Highly hallucination-prone participants who retrospectively reported using imagery showed a lower response bias than did participants with lower proneness who also reported using AVI. Results are discussed in relation to prominent inner speech models of hallucinations.
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