Delusions and prediction error: Clarifying the roles of behavioural and brain responses

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-105

  Corlett, Philip Robert ^a   Fletcher, Paul Charles ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Delusions; Functional neuroimaging; Prediction error

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; EXPECTANCY; EXPECTATION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PREDICTION ERROR MODEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOSIS; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

BRAIN; COGNITION; DELUSIONS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; THINKING;

EID: 84922594976     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2014.990625     Document Type: Review

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