Cognitive vulnerability to auditory hallucination. Impaired perception of meaning.
Forty-four psychiatric patients were separated into four groups on the basis of presence/absence of hallucinations and reactive/process status. Reactive hallucinators were found to be singularly impaired in two aspects of cognitive processing: (1) tolerance of ambiguity; and (2) availability of alternative meanings. The perceptual errors produced by premature judgment and limited consideration of alternative meanings for misperceptions are discussed as factors predisposing to auditory hallucination.
D000328:Adult; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary