A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions.
The lancet. Psychiatry April 1, 2024 Jessica Niamh Harding, Noham Wolpe, Stefan Peter Brugger et al. 43 citations
Attempts to understand psychosis-the experience of profoundly altered perceptions and beliefs-raise questions about how the brain models the world. Standard predictive coding approaches suggest that it does so by minimising mismatches between incoming sensory evidence and predictions. By adjusting predictions, we converge iteratively on a best guess of the nature of the reality. Recent...