Auditory verbal hallucinations and inner speech: a predictive processing perspective
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Inner speech is a pervasive feature of our conscious lives.1 But what is \ninner speech, and what happens in unconscious processing that makes \nit the conscious experience that it is? A clue to answering this can be \nfound in cases where the mechanisms that produce inner speaking \nbehave unusually. In this paper, we suggest an account of a specific \ninstance of this, namely, a particular subtype of auditory verbal hallucination \n(AVH), and draw some lessons about the processes that underlie \nnormal inner speech.
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Predictive processing accounts of inner speech have begun to emerge.
“However, predictive processing accounts of IS have begun to emerge [46]”
From Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool (2023) · cites this paper as [46]
Predictive processing accounts of inner speech are not yet highly developed, perhaps owing to greater challenges that such models face in understanding 'offline' cognition in comparison to processes where perceptual inputs and action outputs are tightly linked.
“Predictive processing accounts of IS are not yet highly developed, perhaps owing to the greater challenges that such models face in understanding 'offline' cognition (such as internal imagery and mind-wandering) in comparison to processes where perceptual inputs and action outputs are tightly linked [45].”
From Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool (2023) · cites this paper as [45]
The ConDialInt model is compatible with many hypotheses of Wilkinson and Fernyhough's predictive account but differs in several ways.
“Our own model is compatible with many of their hypotheses, but slightly differs in a number of ways.”
From The ConDialInt Model: Condensation, Dialogality, and Intentionality Dimensions of Inner Speech Within a Hierarchical Predictive Control Framework (2019) · cites this paper as Wilkinson and Fernyhough, 2017
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- Authors
- Wilkinson, S., & Fernyhough, C.
- Venue
- Before Consciousness : In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind
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- Imprint Academic
- Published
- 2017
- OpenAlex
- W2737240408
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- 18
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- 23
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5
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- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- auditory verbal hallucinations, inner speech, predictive processing, consciousness, unconscious processes, subjective experience
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