The influence of semantic top-down processing in auditory verbal hallucinations

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 82-86

  Daalman, Kirstin ^a   Verkooijen, Sanne ^a   Derks, Eske M ^b   Aleman, André ^c   Sommer, Iris E C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory verbal hallucinations; Cognitive mechanism; Non psychotic individuals; Semantic top down processing; Voices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTIC TOP DOWN PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84863785704     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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