ReviewSchizophrenia research2022
Rethinking delusions: A selective review of delusion research through a computational lens.
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- Using machine learning to predict persecutory beliefs based on aetiological models of delusions identified in a systematic literature search.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Loneliness and delusion-like experiences among women: Mediating role of procrastination and boredom proneness.PloS one · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of uncertainty processing in psychosis spectrum disorder.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Acquiescing to intuition in individuals prone to delusions: alterations in dual processes and cognitive control.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Understanding Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis Through the Predictive Coding Framework.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Review
- A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2024Review
- Transdiagnostic Anxiety-Related Increases in Information Sampling are Associated With Altered Valuation.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- D2/D3 dopamine supports the precision of mental state inferences and self-relevance of joint social outcomes.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- Introspective inference counteracts perceptual distortion.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Bayesian accounts of perceptual decisions in the nonclinical continuum of psychosis: Greater imprecision in both top-down and bottom-up processes.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Relationships between cognitive biases, decision-making, and delusions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Bayes' Theorem in Neurocritical Care: Principles and Practice.Neurocritical care · 2023Review
- The Effect of Situational Experiment Conditions on Hasty Decision Making in the 'Beads Task'.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Computational mechanisms of belief updating in relation to psychotic-like experiences.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Delusions are rigid beliefs held with high certainty despite contradictory evidence. Notwithstanding decades of research, we still have a limited understanding of the computational and neurobiological alterations giving rise to delusions. In this review, we highlight a selection of recent work in computational psychiatry aimed at developing quantitative models of inference and its alterations, with the goal of providing an explanatory account for the form of delusional beliefs in psychosis. First, we assess and evaluate the experimental paradigms most often used to study inferential alterations in delusions. Based on our review of the literature and theoretical considerations, we contend that classic draws-to-decision paradigms are not well-suited to isolate inferential processes, further arguing that the commonly cited 'jumping-to-conclusion' bias may reflect neither delusion-specific nor inferential alterations. Second, we discuss several enhancements to standard paradigms that show promise in more effectively isolating inferential processes and delusion-related alterations therein. We further draw on our recent work to build an argument for a specific failure mode for delusions consisting of prior overweighting in high-level causal inferences about partially observable hidden states. Finally, we assess plausible neurobiological implementations for this candidate failure mode of delusional beliefs and outline promising future directions in this area.
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