The 33rd Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture Cognitive neuropsychiatry and delusional belief
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Cognitive neuropsychiatry is a new field of cognitive psychology which seeks to learn more about the normal operation of high-level aspects of cognition such as belief formation, reasoning, decision making, theory of mind, and pragmatics by studying people in whom such processes are abnormal. So far, the high-level cognitive process most widely studied in cognitive neuropsychiatry has been belief formation, investigated by examining people with delusional beliefs. This paper describes some of the forms of delusional belief that have been examined from this perspective and offers a general two-deficit cognitive-neuropsychiatric account of delusional belief.
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Perceptual anomalies alone will not typically lead to the strange and exotic belief complexes found in delusional subjects.
“It seems correct (see, e.g., Coltheart 2007) to stress that perceptual anomolies alone will not typically lead to the strange and exotic belief complexes found in delusional subjects.”
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- Authors
- Coltheart, M.
- Affiliations
- Macquarie University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Coltheart, Max
- ORCID
- Coltheart, Max
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-08
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1041-1062
- ISSN
- 0033-555X (ISSN-L)
- 1747-0218
- 1747-0226
- OpenAlex
- W2052707010
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 130.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Keywords
- cognitive neuropsychiatry, delusions, belief formation, theory of mind, reasoning, decision-making, pragmatics
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Humans, Neuropsychology, Schizophrenia, Paranoid
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