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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 48-58Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2536
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- Wellcome Trust
- Danish National Research Foundation
- Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund
- Medical Research Council [G0001354, G0001354B] Funding Source: researchfish
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Advances in cognitive neuroscience offer us new ways to understand the symptoms of mental illness by uniting basic neurochemical and neurophysiological observations with the conscious experiences that characterize these symptoms. Cognitive theories about the positive symptoms of schizophrenia - hallucinations and delusions have tended to treat perception and belief formation as distinct processes. However, recent advances in computational neuroscience have led us to consider the unusual perceptual experiences of patients and their sometimes bizarre beliefs as part of the same core abnormality - a disturbance in error-dependent updating of inferences and beliefs about the world. We suggest that it is possible to understand these symptoms in terms of a disturbed hierarchical Bayesian framework, without recourse to separate considerations of experience and belief.
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