title: A community of one: social cognition and auditory verbal hallucinations.
abstract: Auditory verbal hallucinations have attracted a great deal of scientific interest, but despite the fact that they are fundamentally a social experience-in essence, a form of hallucinated communication-current theories remain firmly rooted in an individualistic account and have largely avoided engagement with social cognition. Nevertheless, there is mounting evidence for the role of social cognitive and social neurocognitive processes in auditory verbal hallucinations, and, consequently, it is proposed that problems with the internalisation of social models may be key to the experience.
authors: King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Vaughan
authors: V
authors: Bell
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013060:Speech