Hallucinations and reality interact in distinct ways in individuals with schizophrenia
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 89/100
Multiple neuroimaging and cognitive studies support the claim that hallucinations in individuals with schizophrenia are rooted in distinct disruptions of reality-monitoring, sensory processing, and brain network connectivity.
Evidence for · 6
Interaction of language, auditory and memory brain networks in auditory verbal hallucinations.
2017 · cited by 166
Study 0 shows that auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia involve distinct functional and anatomical connectivity abnormalities across language, auditory, and memory brain networks.
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More for · 5
Cognitive mechanisms of alexithymia in schizophrenia: Investigating the role of basic neurocognitive functioning and cognitive biases.
2019 · cited by 41
Study 2 links the severity of hallucinations in schizophrenia to specific cognitive deficits and source-monitoring biases, indicating distinct cognitive mechanisms interacting with reality.
A Neurophysiological Deficit in Early Visual Processing in Schizophrenia Patients with Auditory Hallucinations
2012 · cited by 27
Study 4 demonstrates that patients with schizophrenia prone to hallucinations exhibit early visual processing deficits, indicating distinct perceptual and sensory integration patterns.
Reality-monitoring deficits and visual hallucinations in
schizophrenia
2019 · cited by 19
Study 6 finds that schizophrenia patients with both visual and auditory hallucinations display specific reality-monitoring and externalization biases compared to those with auditory hallucinations alone.
Time Distortions: A Systematic Review of Cases Characteristic of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.
2021 · cited by 17
Study 8 highlights temporal desynchronization across sensory modalities in psychosis as a distinct underlying mechanism for reality and time distortions.
Neurocognitive bases of self-monitoring of inner speech in hallucination prone individuals.
2023 · cited by 6
Study 11 links verbal hallucinations and proneness in schizophrenia-spectrum states to specific failures in self-monitoring and atypical neural activation in language and decisional areas.