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What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia
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Illusion, namely a mismatch between the objective and perceived properties of an object present in the environment, is a common feature of visual perception, both in normal and pathological conditions. This makes illusion a valuable tool with which to explore normal perception and its impairments. Although still debated, the hypothesis of a modified, and typically diminished, susceptibility to illusions in schizophrenia patients is supported by a growing number of studies. The current paper aimed to review how illusions have been used to explore and reveal the core features of visual perception in schizophrenia from a psychophysical, neurophysiological and functional point of view. We propose an integration of these findings into a common hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. The Bayesian formalism considers perception as the optimal combination between sensory evidence and prior knowledge, thereby highlighting the interweaving of perceptions and beliefs. Notably, it offers a holistic and convincing explanation for the perceptual changes observed in schizophrenia that might be ideally tested using illusory paradigms, as well as potential paths to explore neural mechanisms. Implications for psychopathology (in terms of positive symptoms, subjective experience or behavior disruptions) are critically discussed.
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This review argues that schizophrenia is often associated with diminished susceptibility to visual illusions, interpreted as an overweighting of sensory evidence relative to prior knowledge within a hierarchical Bayesian framework. It proposes circular inference as a unifying account linking altered visual perception to hallucinations and delusions.
Key findings
- A growing number of studies support reduced susceptibility to visual illusions in schizophrenia; Dakin et al. (2005) found the contrast-contrast effect was diminished in schizophrenia (n=15) compared with healthy and psychiatric controls (n=20), with patients more accurate in contrast discrimination. Replications and extensions include surround suppression, binocular depth inversion, apparent motion, and motion-induced blindness.
- Resistance to illusions has been linked to positive symptoms: Keane et al. (2013) found resistance to binocular depth inversion positively correlated with need for structured treatment and positive symptoms; Sanders et al. (2013) found apparent motion illusion strength inversely correlated with delusional belief conviction. However, other studies found no or only weak relationships.
- Neurophysiological evidence includes reduced visual cortex GABA in schizophrenia (Yoon et al., 2010), with lower GABA correlating with less biased contrast discrimination despite misleading context; Dima et al. (2009, 2010) reported reversed effective connectivity patterns (predominance of feedforward modulation) in patients during the hollow-mask illusion.
- Bayesian integration via predictive coding and circular inference models explains symptoms through imbalance between prior and sensory evidence; circular inference predicts either overweighting of sensory evidence (lower illusion susceptibility) or prior knowledge (higher illusion susceptibility) depending on impaired upward or downward loops. Visual hallucinations have a point prevalence of 27% in the psychosis spectrum (Waters et al., 2014), and schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the general population (McGrath et al., 2008).
Methods
- Narrative review of published visual illusion experiments in schizophrenia and pro-psychotic states, with findings summarized in Table 2; no new empirical data or meta-analysis are reported.
- Reviewed paradigms include surround suppression, binocular depth inversion, apparent motion, motion-induced blindness, three-flash, contour detection, and spatial frame illusions, in patients with schizophrenia, first-episode psychosis, prodromal states, bipolar/major depression, substance or sleep-deprivation models, and controls.
- Main analysis is qualitative synthesis and theoretical integration into hierarchical Bayesian inference, including predictive coding and circular inference frameworks.
Limitations
- Stated: findings are heterogeneous; negative or nuanced results often involve surround-suppression illusions, which may be affected by methodological issues and covariates; lack of statistical power may explain some studies; the conflict between Bayesian hypotheses (over- vs under-weighted prediction errors) is unresolved, and neurophysiological causes remain unclear.
- Stated: the paper calls for more rigorous methodology, precise classifications, and conceptual definitions.
- Evident from text: as a narrative review, it does not describe a systematic search strategy, inclusion criteria, or formal quality appraisal; many cited studies have small samples (e.g., n=7–38 in several paradigms), and clinical correlations are inconsistent across studies.
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“The authors reported the illusion peaked to a longer inter-stimulus interval when presented to patients with schizophrenia compared with healthy controls.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
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- Supportedcites Norton et al., 2008 source
The Results state that the diagnosis-by-ISI interaction was significant and that the illusion peaked at different ISIs in patients and controls. The Discussion specifies the direction: the illusion, typically occurring near 100 msec in healthy subjects, shifted to longer intervals in patients. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“A growing field of theoretical and experimental approaches have related psychotic features, such as hallucinations and delusions, to a general disruption in the inferential process (Friston, 2005b; Fletcher and Frith, 2008; Schmack et al., 2013).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites Friston, 2005b
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The Conclusions state that hallucinations and delusions may share an abnormality in Bayesian inference, with new evidence not properly integrated. The Abstract likewise says that disruption of a common prediction-error mechanism may cause both hallucinations and delusions. This supports the cited claim about an inferential disruption underlying these psychotic features. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Furthermore, the authors found that this reduction predicted better (less biased) performances in the surround suppression task by observing that the lower rates of GABA observed in patients correlated with their tendency to be more accurate in contrast discrimination despite a misleading context.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Partly supportedcites Yoon et al., 2010 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (MRS GABA Measurements; Correlation of visual cortical GABA levels and OSSS, page not provided) report lower GABA in patients and a significant association between lower GABA and less orientation-specific surround suppression, consistent with less context-biased discrimination. But that correlation was measured across patients and controls together; the patient-only correlation was not significant (r=0.32, p=0.40). The paper therefore does not establish the claimed correlation specifically in patients. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“However, these attempts led to apparent contradictions.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
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“Rather than the classical cognitive deficit-model proposed in schizophrenia, these findings suggest a perceptual process different in nature compared to the one observed in the general population.”
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“Dakin's findings were notably replicated using the same type of context-based illusion paradigms (Uhlhaas et al., 2004; Tadin et al., 2006; Chen et al., 2008)”
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“By manipulating the reference-contrast, the authors noticed that the patients who suffered from schizophrenia were significantly less biased by the surroundings and were thus more accurate in contrast discrimination compared with the healthy and psychiatric controls.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Introduction
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“Interestingly, studying VIs provides crucial elements for understanding these two elementary mechanisms.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > A window into the functional dimension of visual perception
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“Even if these data should still be interpreted with caution, the hypothesis of a diminished sensitivity to VIs in schizophrenia appears to be a most robust finding.”
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“Despite the fact that the stimuli used in surround suppression VIs can easily be standardized, heterogeneous findings concerning schizophrenia have been reported in this sub-field (see Table 2).”
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“Thus, these authors hypothesized that the pre-cortical stages of the visual system, in which luminance is supposed to be processed, were spared, thereby contradicting Norton's conclusions.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
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- Supportedcites Yang et al., 2012 source
In the Discussion (‘Contextual modulation of brightness’; page unavailable), Yang et al. report relatively intact brightness induction in schizophrenia and infer that the subcortical mechanisms involved are relatively intact. This supports the attribution that pre-cortical visual processing was spared. The comparison with Norton is the citing authors’ framing, not a conclusion attributed to Yang et al. (LLM, conf=0.89)
- Partly supportedcites Tibber et al., 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page unavailable) says that findings from both Yang et al. and Tibber et al. point to preserved luminance gain control in schizophrenia and raise the possibility that dysfunction is cortical rather than pre-cortical. It also locates early luminance processing in the retina and LGN. The cited paper does not identify Norton's conclusions or establish that this interpretation contradicts them. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Some authors have argued, in line with the findings that stem from the study of VIs, that the impairment of gain control is a robust and significant property of visual processing in schizophrenia, and may even consider it a core feature of the disorder (Robol et al., 2013; Tibber et al., 2013).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > A window into the functional dimension of visual perception
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“Yang et al. (2012) and Tibber et al. (2013) found that luminance context processing was similar, whereas the strength of the illusions was inferior in patients for the other psychophysical parameters (e.g., contrast, orientation, size or motion).”
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“VIs, although polymorphic, pinpoint the limits of purely anatomoclinical or linear causal models and underline, in contrast, the complexity and specificity of visual perception in schizophrenia.”
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“Although not always labeled as such, many VIs refer to a basic perceptual phenomenon called the context or surround suppression effect, which can be conceptualized as a form of gain control.”
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“According to Butler et al. (2008) this phenomenon of perceptual organization can be viewed as relying on two main fundamental mechanisms: gain control and integration, both of which could be impaired in schizophrenia.”
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- Not checked yetcites Butler et al., 2008 source
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“They argued that this temporal alteration may rely on a faulty sensory-integration within the very first stages of the visual stream.”
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“From a methodological point of view, increased performance in patients cannot be attributed to general task difficulty, a lack of attention or motivation or to a disease-related global deficit.”
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“This paradigm appears exposed to specific methodological issues and covariates that may be imputed in the results”
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“Artificially over-trusted, sensory signals become over-salient and unpredictable. They could be transmitted up the hierarchy, but no adjustments could fully resolve the aberrancy (Fletcher and Frith, 2008).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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“The authors proposed that context interaction impairment in schizophrenia may be better accounted for by alterations of surround inhibition rather than surround facilitation.”
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“If both descending and climbing loops are impaired (A), both sensory evidence and prior knowledge are reverberated and over counted (multiplication of the pink and violet arrows). In the Predictive coding framework, this results in an overconfident (narrowing of the posterior distribution) but not biased (unchanged K) inferred belief.”
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“several authors have defended the idea that visual perception plays an important role in the psychopathology of schizophrenia (Butler and Javitt, 2005), and constitutes a unique way to explore the underlying mechanisms of reality construction (Silverstein and Keane, 2011).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Introduction
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“By relying on the Bayesian formalism, authors typically impute the positive symptoms of schizophrenia to an imbalance in the relative weight or precision attributed to the prior and sensory evidence, which, in turn, causes false inferences.”
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“According to this author, the internalized rules of perspective (i.e., prior knowledge) lead an individual to compute the line flanked with converging fins as if it were further away. Consequently, the line's shorter appearance conflicts with the actual identical size of the two lines.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions and the bayesian theory
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- Not checked yetcites Gregory
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“VIs are an illustration of the perceptual system's ability to bind and group visual elements into coherent patterns, which leads to a meaningful representation.”
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“Importantly, despite conceptual differences, these frameworks are algorithmically similar and may essentially differ in the type of variables considered (e.g., binary vs. continuous, see Jardri and Deneve, 2013).”
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“The physiological existence of VIs suggests that deceiving perception paradoxically requires the integrity of the different subcomponents of the visual system.”
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“Gain control of neural responses is achieved through a combination of intrinsic neuronal properties, lateral interactions and feedback modulations (Must et al., 2004).”
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“Some evidence suggests that surround suppression and its impairment depends on several variables, such as the contrast (previously discussed) and the time of presentation (Calvert and Harris, 1988; Bressan and Kramer, 2013), which counters an absolute independent process.”
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“However, rather than a perceptual error, this bias is better understood as the consequence of inferences that optimally combine bottom-up and top-down information (see Boxes 1, 3), which supports the best adaptation in a noisy environment.”
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“This disturbance would result in aberrant concept formation, delusions, and hallucinations.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Introduction
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“even if a lack of statistical power is a major cause of concern in neuroscience and may be imputed for several studies (Button et al., 2013)”
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“While a model that places connectivity modulation from the higher-level areas to the primary visual cortex (i.e., V1) better accounted for healthy control data, the DCM revealed a reverse pattern in schizophrenia patients (i.e., the predominance of the feedforward modulation).”
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“However, in opposition to a theory of over salient sensory evidence, some authors have argued that excessively precise prior expectations, which correspond to a smaller-than-normal gain for prediction errors, better account for hallucinatory experiences.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
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“Depending on which loops are mostly impaired, the model predicts that either sensory information or priors will dominate the final percept.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
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In the paper
“Note that the conflict between apparently contradictory hypotheses (gains of prediction errors larger than normal or smaller than normal, over-trusted prior or over-counted sensory evidence) has never been fully resolved, which renders the experimental testing of these theories extremely difficult.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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“Even when facing weak or non-existent sensory evidence, the circular propagation generates strong perceptual beliefs: hallucinations occur where nothing relevant should have been inferred.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
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In the paper
“In the same way, circular inference introduces spurious correlations between sensory (feedforward) and prior (feedback) messages that are non-existent in the real world. This leads to the learning and consolidation of “unshakable” (but false) causal relationships, resulting in delusional belief systems.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
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In the paper
“Vice-versa, a deficit in the control of downward loops (e.g., prior expectations that activate lower levels and are misinterpreted as sensory information when they are reverberated back up the hierarchy) would predict an over-confidence in the prior knowledge and a higher susceptibility to perceptual illusions.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
In the paper
“In their model, Jardri and Denève showed how excitatory/inhibitory imbalance renders the system unable to avoid circular propagation of beliefs: bottom-up sensory evidence are reverberated back down as if they were prior information (upward loops), and thus combined with themselves until weak sensory inputs or meaningless coincidences are attributed to highly trusted high-level interpretations.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites Jardri and Deneve, 2013
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
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“Several authors have also related auditory hallucinations to an over-saliency of the inner speech (considered a covert motor action), which is misattributed to an alien source (McGuire et al., 1995; Allen et al., 2007; Moseley et al., 2013).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
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“Thus, asymmetrically impairing the inhibitory loops biases the inferential system in two opposite ways that both may generate the same aspecific perceptual phenomenon.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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It may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Indeed, a deficit in the control of upward loops (e.g., sensory evidence that reaches a high level representation and is then misinterpreted as prior knowledge when it is reverberated back down) would cause an over-confidence in sensory evidence and a lower susceptibility to perceptual illusions.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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It may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
In the paper
“More importantly, the authors then experimentally confirmed these predictions by observing, after the systemic administration of a GABAA agonist (lorazepam), a lengthening of the percept durations and a decrease in the switch rates (Van Loon et al., 2013).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites Van Loon et al., 2013 source
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“Finally, the neurophysiological processes that cause this imbalance remain unclear.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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“This would be aggravated by an asymmetric impairment predominantly affecting either the upward or downward loops.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“In contrast, when the impairment only affects climbing loops (B), sensory evidence, but not prior knowledge, is reverberated. The prediction error is emphasized (K is too large), and the inferred belief is biased toward sensory evidence.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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It may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
In the paper
“Indeed such balance is tightly maintained in cortical networks, and appears to be affected in schizophrenia (O'Donnell, 2011).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites O'Donnell, 2011 source
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“When facing a VI (i.e., a complex perceptual task), a tendency toward a top-down counter-balancing is observed in controls, whereas patients who suffer from schizophrenia exhibit a strengthening of the bottom-up processes that prevent them from perceiving the illusory effect.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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In the paper
“The fact that patients with schizophrenia failed to correct for the inverted Hollow Mask to a more plausible (or predictable) interpretation can also be explained by an underweighting of prior knowledge during perceptual inferences (Schmeider et al., 1996; Schneider et al., 2002; Koethe et al., 2009).”
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In the paper
“According to this hypothesis, perception distances itself from the sensory stimuli and becomes dependent on prior knowledge of the world (Friston, 2005b; Chambon et al., 2011; Schmack et al., 2013); thus, one would only perceive what one is expecting to perceive.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
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In the paper
“If, in contrast, the inhibitory disequilibrium disfavors the descending loops (C), only the prior knowledge is over counted because of its reverberation. The prediction error is then minimized (K is too small), and the resulting posterior is biased toward expectations.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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It may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Conversely, a disrupted inferential system may fail to attenuate the sensory consequences of self-generated acts. Artificially overweighed, the resulting prediction error would then drive otherwise silent percepts to emerge into awareness. The only way to account for this unusual experience is then to misattribute it to an external agent.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
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In the paper
“Psychotic manifestations can be understood as resulting from such circular inferences, which cause overconfidence, surinterpretations of weak sensory data and dissociations between high-level and low-level representations.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Rests on an assumption: Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
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In the paper
“Despite an abundant literature dealing with this matter, frequent methodological issues (e.g., inter-group comparability) have made the findings difficult to interpret.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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“Importantly, while VIs provide a privileged access to the visual hallucinatory modality, readers should note that adult patients who suffer from schizophrenia are more concerned by auditory compared with visual hallucinations (Mueser et al., 1990; Blom, 2010).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“asymmetric impairment in the excitatory-inhibitory balance (i.e., an overweighting of prior information relative to the sensory evidence, which is caused by an insufficient inhibitory control of downward loops). This impairment could explain the concomitant increase in hallucinations and illusions in Parkinson's disease (as could the Predictive Coding model).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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In the paper
“Interestingly, the opposite profile of asymmetric circular belief propagation (selective impairment of upward loops) predicts opposite (increased) vulnerability to VIs but similar symptoms.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“Thus, these converging clues prompt one to refute the idea that resistance to VIs is a specific perceptual property of schizophrenia and, hence, an endophenotypic marker for psychosis in general.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“Considering the Circular Inference model, aberrant experiences in schizophrenia may be understood as an immersion in a world dominated by sensory evidence, while top-down influences lose their organizing and structuring potential.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the relations with subjective experiences?
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In the paper
“While some authors found no or only weak relationships between VIs and psychopathology (Koethe et al., 2006, 2009; Tibber et al., 2013; Yang et al., 2013)”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“This tendency is noteworthy in the case of Parkinson's disease, in which one quarter of patients suffer from visual hallucinations and visual misperceptions (Diederich et al., 2009).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites Diederich et al., 2009 source
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In the paper
“The authors reported visual hallucinations with a substantial point prevalence of 27% (Waters et al., 2014).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2014 source
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In the paper
“According to this hypothesis, the more weight that is attributed to sensory evidence (because of a spontaneous or induced variable disequilibrium in the excitatory-to-inhibitory balance), the less prone the subject is to VIs, and the more vulnerable he will be to delusional beliefs and hallucinations.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“We effectively illustrated how an overweighting of sensory evidence may explain both hallucinations and the reduced susceptibility to VIs in schizophrenia.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
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In the paper
“Hallucinations would only emerge when facing highly uncertain (and normally irrelevant) sensory information.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the relations with subjective experiences?
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
- The authors state this as an assumption: During the vast majority of daily life situations, patients resolve the moderate ambiguity of environmental stimuli through strong and unambiguous percepts but with weakened links and coherence between perceptual elements.
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“studies that directly compared patients who suffered from schizophrenia with patients who suffered from bipolar or major depressive disorders found that the latter two groups were normally sensitive to Binocular depth inversion (Schneider et al., 2002; Koethe et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2013) and Contrast modulation (Dakin et al., 2005; Yang et al., 2013), which was significantly different from the”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“This proposal may account for the gradual increase in susceptibility to VIs that accompanies the progressive emergence of misperceptions in some psychiatric or neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's disease (see also Section Visual Illusions, Bayes and Psychotic Symptoms).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
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In the paper
“provide an heuristic value to the vulnerability to illusions, which can be considered an indirect but valuable access to the global neural processing in this disorder.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with action control and motor behavior?
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“This phenomenon can also be explained by the lack of prior influence on saliency.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the relations with subjective experiences?
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“Using a probabilistic generative model, the authors predicted that a failure in attenuating sensory proprioceptive evidence led to the emergence of delusional ideas regarding agency (the ability to correctly identify oneself as the cause of one's own actions), as well as a decreased susceptibility to the Force-matching illusion.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with action control and motor behavior?
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- Not checked yetcites Brown et al. (2013) source
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“These findings are in accordance with previous experimental reports of resistance to VIs in schizophrenia but extend this observation to multisensory perception.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with action control and motor behavior?
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“The authors indicated that patients who suffered from schizophrenia were more accurate compared with controls when matching the externally applied force, which revealed a failure in the normal sensory attenuation mechanism.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with action control and motor behavior?
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Perception is closely interwoven with other high-level functions such as belief genesis or reasoning.
“In line with the assumption that perception is closely interwoven with other high-level functions (such as belief genesis or reasoning; Fletcher and Frith, 2008)”
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The Bayesian formalism considers perception as the optimal combination between sensory evidence and prior knowledge.
“The Bayesian formalism considers perception as the optimal combination between sensory evidence and prior knowledge, thereby highlighting the interweaving of perceptions and beliefs.”
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Sensory inputs are inherently ambiguous.
“Bayesian models set uncertainty and belief as the core features of perception by considering sensory inputs as inherently ambiguous.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction, and this requires equally strong inhibitory loops to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops.
“To properly compute the probability of perceptual variables, the prior and likelihood must be multiplied only once. In the brain's hierarchy, top-down and bottom-up beliefs should be propagated only once in each direction (see figure above). This can be achieved if equally strong inhibitory loops exist to cancel excitatory feedforward/feedback loops (green and black units).”
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Long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory.
“Since long-range connections in the brain are overwhelmingly excitatory, these two types of messages would be reverberated endlessly through feed-forward/feedback excitatory loops if they were not controlled, and kept in check, by the presence of equivalently strong inhibitory loops.”
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In Predictive Coding, the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.
“Predictive coding applies the Bayes rule while assuming that the prior and the likelihood have a Gaussian distribution.”
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During the vast majority of daily life situations, patients resolve the moderate ambiguity of environmental stimuli through strong and unambiguous percepts but with weakened links and coherence between perceptual elements.
“Although the hypothesis requires further investigation, we can assume that during the vast majority of daily life situations, patients resolve the moderate ambiguity of the environmental stimuli through strong and unambiguous percepts but with weakened links and coherence between perceptual elements (links typically implicitly driven by prior knowledge).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The necessity to adapt to highly ambiguous situations is not permanent.
“Importantly, because the necessity to adapt to highly ambiguous situations is not permanent, this may also account for the intermittent nature of hallucinations (Jardri et al., 2013).”
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When ambiguity is particularly strong, visual illusions represent an extreme perceptual task.
“When the ambiguity is particularly strong, VIs represent an extreme perceptual task.”
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“a decreased influence of stimulus predictability on brain responses (e.g. N400, P300, MMN; but see (62));”
From The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018) · cites this paper as [61]
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“and a loss of cortico-thalamic connectivity (for reviews see (59, 61)).”
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“One example of evidence for this model is that individuals with schizophrenia have been found to be less susceptible to visual illusions (Notredame, Pins, Deneve, & Jardri, 2014).”
From The role of sleep dysfunction in the occurrence of delusions and hallucinations: A systematic review (2015) · cites this paper as Notredame, Pins, Deneve, & Jardri, 2014
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“a failure to attenuate sensory consequences of self-generated actions;”
From The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018) · cites this paper as [61]
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“For example, psychosis has been associated with a greater resistance to visual illusions (which rely on prior beliefs for their effects);”
From The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018) · cites this paper as [61]
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“Psychosis has been related to a decreased precision of prior beliefs and/or increased precision of sensory data (13, 24, 58–61).”
From The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018) · cites this paper as [61]
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“It not only provides a plausible explanation for delusional mood and paranoid delusions, akin to the aberrant salience account (47, 48), but also for hallucinations (61, 63) and passivity phenomena (13, 59).”
From The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018) · cites this paper as [61]
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“impaired smooth visual pursuit of a moving target – but improved tracking of unpredictable changes in target motion;”
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§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
“Contrast modulation (Dakin et al., 2005; Yang et al., 2013), which was significantly different from the patients with schizophrenia.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“There was no difference in the surround effect influence between BD, SCZ and CTL groups for any task”
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§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
“other authors identified an inverse correlation with either positive (Norton et al., 2008; Keane et al., 2013; Silverstein et al., 2013) or negative (Tadin et al., 2006; Silverstein et al., 2013) symptom dimensions.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“Positive, depression and excitement symptoms were positively correlated with context sensitivity in the SCZ group”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“Dakin's findings were notably replicated using the same type of context-based illusion paradigms (Uhlhaas et al., 2004; Tadin et al., 2006; Chen et al., 2008)”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“The surround-induced bias was greater in patients compared with CTL.”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“Yang et al. (2012) and Tibber et al. (2013) found that luminance context processing was similar, whereas the strength of the illusions was inferior in patients for the other psychophysical parameters (e.g., contrast, orientation, size or motion).”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Visual illusions: a way to probe the integrity of visual processing in schizophrenia? > Discussing the limits of the structural approach
“However, the magnitude of the contextual modulation for luminance, size, orientation and motion was similar in both groups”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
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§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > Theoretical and clinical implications for schizophrenia research > What are the links with psychopathology?
“selective impairment of upward loops) predicts opposite (increased) vulnerability to VIs but similar symptoms.”
§ What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia > The computational point of view > Visual illusions, bayes and psychotic symptoms
“a deficit in the control of upward loops (e.g., sensory evidence that reaches a high level representation and is then misinterpreted as prior knowledge when it is reverberated back down) would cause an over-confidence in sensory evidence and a lower susceptibility to perceptual illusions.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Notredame, C.-E., Pins, D., Deneve, S., & Jardri, R.
- Affiliations
- Université Lille Nord de France (FR)
- Inserm (FR)
- Venue
- Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2014-08-12
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 63-63
- ISSN
- 1662-5145 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4130106
- OpenAlex
- W2049841753
- Semantic Scholar
- 97e12e87097bdf638c7420c2118a03f0ae8acc83
- Cited by
- 177
- References
- 92
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- 2026: 15 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 2.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Keywords
- optical illusions, schizophrenia, visual perception, Bayesian inference, perceptual priors, perceptual belief, positive symptoms, subjective experience, neural mechanisms of perception
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