This paper argues for a novel way of thinking about hallucinations as intensified forms of
mind-wandering. Starting from the observation that hallucinations are associated with …

Illusions and hallucinations are commonly encountered in both daily life and clinical
practice. In this chapter, we review definitions and possible underlying mechanisms of these …

Auditory hallucinations (AHs) are certainly the most emblematic experiences in
schizophrenia, but visual hallucinations (VHs) are also commonly observed in this …

The qualities of remembered experiences are often used to inform “reality monitoring”
judgments, our ability to distinguish real and imagined events. Previous experiments have …

Introduction Context processing deficiencies have been established in patients with
schizophrenia and it has been proposed that these deficiencies are involved in the formation …

Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is a rarely diagnosed neurological phenomenon. It is a visual
disorder characterised by the presence of numerous white, black, or translucent dots in the …

Schizotypy is a personality trait in healthy people that is related to schizophrenic symptoms.
People with high schizotypy tend to have hallucinatory experiences. The relationship …

Introspective agents can recognize the extent to which their internal perceptual experiences
deviate from the actual states of the external world. This ability, also known as insight, is …

An 81-year-old female presented with a right pontine infarct and later developed recurrent
vivid hallucinations. After a workup for delirium and hallucinosis was unrevealing, a …

Abstract Following Damasio's (The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the
Making of Consciousness, Heinemann, 2000): 82) suggestion that “the study of human …