Numerous delusions have been studied which are highly specific and which can present in isolation in people whose beliefs are otherwise entirely unremarkable—“monothematic …
The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology gives a thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an …
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …
M Coltheart - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive neuropsychiatry is a new field of cognitive psychology which seeks to learn more about the normal operation of high-level aspects of cognition such as belief formation …
Abstract According to the Two-Factor theory of delusional belief (see eg Coltheart at al., 2011), there exists a cognitive system dedicated to the generation, evaluation, and …
While deficits in metacognition have been observed in schizophrenia (SZ), it is less clear whether these are specific to the disorder. Accordingly, this study compared metacognitive …
L Gurin, S Blum - The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical …, 2017 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
Delusions are beliefs that remain fixed despite evidence that they are incorrect. Although the precise neural mechanism of delusional belief remains to be elucidated, there is a …
P Gerrans - Mind & Language, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Jennifer Radden has drawn attention to two features of delusion, ambivalence and subjectivity, which are problematic for theories of delusion that treat delusions as empirical …
G Young - Consciousness and Cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper I discuss the role played by disturbed phenomenology in accounting for the formation and maintenance of the Capgras delusion. Whilst endorsing a two-stage model to …