Imaginary companions and young children's responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: implications for typical and atypical development.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines November 1, 2007 Charles Fernyhough, Kirsten Bland, Elizabeth Meins et al.
Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognitive processes underlying children's engagement with ICs and adults' reporting of imaginary verbal experiences such as auditory verbal hallucinations. The aim...