Effects of expectations and sensory unreliability on voice detection - A preregistered study.
Consciousness and Cognition August 1, 2024 Piotr Szymanek, Marek Homan, Michiel van Elk et al.
The phenomenon of "hearing voices" can be found not only in psychotic disorders, but also in the general population, with individuals across cultures reporting auditory perceptions of supernatural beings. In our preregistered study, we investigated a possible mechanism of such experiences, grounded in the predictive processing model of agency detection. We predicted that in a signal detection...