ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Reconciling competing mechanisms posited to underlie auditory verbal hallucinations.
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- Examining the relationships between cognition and auditory hallucinations: A systematic review.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Predictions of bimanual self-touch determine the temporal tuning of somatosensory perception.iScience · 2025Article
- Pons-to-Cerebellum Hypoconnectivity Along the Psychosis Spectrum and Associations With Sensory Prediction and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Normative modeling of thalamic nuclear volumes.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Biomarkers of Auditory-Verbal Hallucinations.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Altered corollary discharge signaling in the auditory cortex of a mouse model of schizophrenia predisposition.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Consider the pons: bridging the gap on sensory prediction abnormalities in schizophrenia.Trends in neurosciences · 2022Review
- Perceptual pathways to hallucinogenesis.Schizophrenia research · 2022Article
- Measuring Voluntary Control Over Hallucinations: The Yale Control Over Perceptual Experiences (COPE) Scales.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- Hypersensitivity to passive voice hearing in hallucination proneness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Imbalanced Plasticity Hypothesis of Schizophrenia-Related Psychosis: A Predictive Perspective.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Offline perception: an introduction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Consciousness in active inference: Deep self-models, other minds, and the challenge of psychedelic-induced ego-dissolution.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Review
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Abstract
Perception is not the passive registration of incoming sensory data. Rather, it involves some analysis by synthesis, based on past experiences and context. One adaptive consequence of this arrangement is imagination-the ability to richly simulate sensory experiences, interrogate and manipulate those simulations, in service of action and decision making. In this paper, we will discuss one possible cost of this adaptation, namely hallucinations-perceptions without sensory stimulation, which characterize serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, but which also occur in neurological illnesses, and-crucially for the present piece-are common also in the non-treatment-seeking population. We will draw upon a framework for imagination that distinguishes voluntary from non-voluntary experiences and explore the extent to which the varieties and features of hallucinations map onto this distinction, with a focus on auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs)-colloquially, hearing voices. We will propose that sense of agency for the act of imagining is key to meaningfully dissecting different forms and features of AVHs, and we will outline the neural, cognitive and phenomenological sequelae of this sense. We will conclude that a compelling unifying framework for action, perception and belief-predictive processing-can incorporate observations regarding sense of agency, imagination and hallucination. This article is part of the theme issue 'Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.
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