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Believing is seeing in schizophrenia: The role of top-down processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Duje Tadin*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/
Peiyan Wong*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/
Michael W. Mebane*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/
Michael J. Berkowitz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/
Hollister Trott*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/
Sohee Park*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37240http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/sohee/

Abstract

The etiology of visual hallucinations is largely undetermined in schizophrenia. Collerton et al.'s PAD model partly concurs with what we know about neurocognition in schizophrenia, but we need to specify the types of perceptual and attentional abnormalities that are implicated in recurrent complex visual hallucinations (RCVH). Available data suggest that abnormal attentional control and top-down processing play a larger role than the ventral stream deficits.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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