ArticleBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2016
Hallucinations as top-down effects on perception.
Article in Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04210557 (Models of Auditory Hallucination), which is not on this map. Cited by 86 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Models of Auditory Hallucination
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86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hallucinations and auditory-verbal signal detection studies: A meta-analytic review.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Social expectations in early-stage psychosis: Less stereotypical facial expression predictions.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Brain Structural and Functional Alteration Network Localization of Visual Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
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- A Systematic Characterization of Causal Interactions Between Human Visual Areas.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Hallucination Proneness is Linked to Over-Reliance on Internal Priors for Noisy Speech.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Avoiding the dichotomy between endogenous and exogenous attention: Selective attention as an attentional priority map fed by multiple interacting attentional signals.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- A case of marked improvement in pareidolia in untreated schizophrenia following antipsychotic treatment.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
- Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Compensatory hallucinogenesis across three neuropsychiatric disorders: a Bayesian account.Brain communications · 2026Review
- Abnormal cortical topographic patterns associated with auditory verbal hallucination in first-episode schizophrenia.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- From neuronal to mental topography - Neurophenomenology of auditory hallucinations.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Cerebellar-Cortical Connectivity and Prediction of Antipsychotic Treatment Response in First-Episode Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Emergence and Dynamics of Delusions and Hallucinations Across Stages in Early Psychosis.Biological psychiatry · 2025Article
- Exaggerated perception of change with greater sensory imprecision.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Associations of Cognitive Expectancies With Auditory Hallucinations and Hallucinatory-Like Experiences in Patients With Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- When perception meets grief: how the brain reconstructs person networks in response to absence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- A Computational Account of the Development and Evolution of Psychotic Symptoms.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
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Abstract
The problem of whether and how information is integrated across hierarchical brain networks embodies a fundamental tension in contemporary cognitive neuroscience, and by extension, cognitive neuropsychiatry. Indeed, the penetrability of perceptual processes in a 'top-down' manner by higher-level cognition-a natural extension of hierarchical models of perception-may contradict a strictly modular view of mental organization. Furthermore, some in the cognitive science community have challenged cognitive penetration as an unlikely, if not impossible, process. We review the evidence for and against top-down influences in perception, informed by a predictive coding model of perception and drawing heavily upon the literature of computational neuroimaging. We extend these findings to propose a way in which these processes may be altered in mental illness. We propose that hallucinations - perceptions without stimulus - can be understood as top-down effects on perception, mediated by inappropriate perceptual priors.
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