Accounting for the Phenomenology and Varieties of Auditory Verbal Hallucination Within a Predictive Processing Framework

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Journal Conscious Cogn

Specialties Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 2014 Oct 7

PMID 25286243

Citations 24

Authors

Sam Wilkinson

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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.

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