title: Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework.
abstract: Two challenges that face popular self-monitoring theories (SMTs) of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) are that they cannot account for the auditory phenomenology of AVHs and that they cannot account for their variety. In this paper I show that both challenges can be met by adopting a predictive processing framework (PPF), and by viewing AVHs as arising from abnormalities in predictive processing. I show how, within the PPF, both the auditory phenomenology of AVHs, and three subtypes of AVH, can be accounted for.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN, UK. Electronic address: sam.wilkinson@durham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D006212:Hallucinations / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Auditory-verbal hallucination; Predictive processing; Psychosis; Schizophrenia