Hallucination, imagery, dreaming: reassembling stimulus-independent perceptions based on Edmund Parish's classic misperception framework
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, vol. 376, pp. 20190701
Abstract
Within the broad field of human perception lies the category of stimulus-independent perceptions, which draws together experiences such as hallucinations, mental imagery and dreams. Traditional divisions between medical and psychological sciences have contributed to these experiences being investigated separately. This review aims to examine their similarities and differences at the levels of phenomenology and underlying brain function and thus reassemble them within a common framework. Using Edmund Parish's historical work as a guiding tool and the latest research findings in the cognitive, clinical and computational sciences, we consider how different perspectives may be reconciled and help generate novel hypotheses for future research. This article is part of the theme issue 'Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.
Authors 3
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Flavie Waters corresponding
The University of Western Australia · North Metropolitan Health Service
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Clinical Research Centre, Graylands Hospital, North Metropolitan Health Service-Mental Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK
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Leiden University · University of Groningen · Parnassia Groep
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
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