Abstract Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs)—or hearing voices—occur in clinical and non-clinical populations, but their mechanisms remain unclear. Predictive processing models of psychosis have proposed that hallucinations arise from an over-weighting of prior expectations in perception. It is unknown, however, whether this reflects (i) a sensitivity to explicit modulation of prior knowledge...
Stan Scott has taught philosophy, literature, and writing for many years at the University of Maine— Presque Isle. Current interests include studies in the Bible as literature, environmental ethics, philosophy of education, and literature of peace and justice. He is the author of Frontiers of Consciousness: Studies in American Philosophy and Poetry (Fordham UP, 1991, 1994) and numerous...