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Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Two challenges that face popular self-monitoring theories (SMTs) of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) are that they cannot account for the auditory phenomenology of AVHs and that they cannot account for their variety. In this paper I show that both challenges can be met by adopting a predictive processing framework (PPF), and by viewing AVHs as arising from abnormalities in predictive processing. I show how, within the PPF, both the auditory phenomenology of AVHs, and three subtypes of AVH, can be accounted for.

Source: Consciousness and Cognition

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.002

Author: Sam Wilkinson

Institution: Durham University

Language: English

Topic: Hallucinations in medical conditions

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,210

Funder: Wellcome Trust