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Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions (2016)
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Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Ellison, A., Jardri, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00515

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are the experience of hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker. Results from recent attempts to treat AVHs with neurostimulation (rTMS or tDCS) to the left temporoparietal junction have not been conclusive,... Read More about Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions.

Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how? (2016)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(7-8), 163-194

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experiences of hearing voices in the absence of an external speaker. Standard explanatory models propose that AVH arise from misattributed verbal cognitions (i.e. inner speech), but provide little account of h... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?.

Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing (2015)
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Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Dodgson, G. (2015). Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01933

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for voice-hearing (i.e., auditory verbal hallucinations; AVH) has, at best, small-to-moderate effects. One possible reason for this limited efficacy is that current CBT approaches tend to conceptualise voice-hearin... Read More about Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing.

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction (2015)
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Wilkinson, S., & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0288-6

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the proble... Read More about Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction.

What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner (2015)
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Hurlburt, R., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Kühn, S. (2015). What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01535

The brain’s resting-state has attracted considerable interest in recent years, but currently little is known either about typical experience during the resting-state or about whether there are inter-individual differences in resting-state phenomenolo... Read More about What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner.

Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults (2015)
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Firth, L., Alderson-Day, B., Woods, N., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults. Creativity Research Journal, 27(4), 308-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2015.1087240

The presence of a childhood imaginary companion (IC) has been proposed to reflect heightened imaginative abilities. This study hypothesized that adults who reported having a childhood IC would score higher on a task requiring the imaginative construc... Read More about Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults.

The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., Weis, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., Moseley, P., Smailes, D., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(1), 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv094

Inner speech has been implicated in important aspects of normal and atypical cognition, including the development of auditory hallucinations. Studies to date have focused on covert speech elicited by simple word or sentence repetition, while ignoring... Read More about The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech.

Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology. Psychological Bulletin, 141(5), 931-965. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000021

Inner speech—also known as covert speech or verbal thinking—has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body of knowledge on its phenomenology, development, a... Read More about Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology.

Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 55, 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.04.016

Resting state networks (RSNs) are thought to reflect the intrinsic functional connectivity of brain regions. Alterations to RSNs have been proposed to underpin various kinds of psychopathology, including the occurrence of auditory verbal hallucinatio... Read More about Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations.

Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 517. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00517

Inner speech is often reported to be a common and central part of inner experience, but its true prevalence is unclear. Many questionnaire-based measures appear to lack convergent validity and it has been claimed that they overestimate inner speech i... Read More about Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study.

Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey (2015)
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Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900006-1

Background: Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central... Read More about Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014)
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Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Hurlburt, R. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393

To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at pr... Read More about Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?.

Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development (2014)
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Alderson-Day, B. (2014). Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development. Autism Research, 7(6), 720-730. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1424

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) adopt less efficient strategies than typically developing (TD) peers on the Twenty Questions Task (TQT), a measure of verbal problem-solving skills. Although problems with the TQT are typically associate... Read More about Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development.

Shot through with voices: Dissociation mediates the relationship between varieties of inner speech and auditory hallucination proneness (2014)
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Alderson-Day, B., McCarthy-Jones, S., Bedford, S., Collins, H., Dunne, H., Rooke, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Shot through with voices: Dissociation mediates the relationship between varieties of inner speech and auditory hallucination proneness. Consciousness and Cognition, 27, 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.010

Inner speech is a commonly experienced but poorly understood phenomenon. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ; McCarthy-Jones & Fernyhough, 2011) assesses four characteristics of inner speech: dialogicality, evaluative/motivational conte... Read More about Shot through with voices: Dissociation mediates the relationship between varieties of inner speech and auditory hallucination proneness.

Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care (2014)
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Johns, L., Kompus, K., Connell, M., Humpston, C., Lincoln, T., Longden, E., …Larøi, F. (2014). Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S255-S264. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu005

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are complex experiences that occur in the context of various clinical disorders. AVH also occur in individuals from the general population who have no identifiable psychiatric or neurological diagnoses. This artic... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2014)
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Woods, A., Jones, N., Bernini, M., Callard, F., Alderson-Day, B., Badcock, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2014). Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S246-S254. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu003

Despite the recent proliferation of scientific, clinical, and narrative accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), the phenomenology of voice hearing remains opaque and undertheorized. In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary approach... Read More about Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Profound Expressive Language Impairment in Low Functioning Children with Autism: An Investigation of Syntactic Awareness Using a Computerised Learning Task (2013)
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McGonigle-Chalmers, M., Alderson-Day, B., Fleming, J., & Monsen, K. (2013). Profound Expressive Language Impairment in Low Functioning Children with Autism: An Investigation of Syntactic Awareness Using a Computerised Learning Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(9), 2062-2081. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1753-z

Gamma activation in young people with autism spectrum disorders and typically-developing controls when viewing emotions on faces (2012)
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Wright, B., Alderson-Day, B., Prendergast, G., Bennett, S., Jordan, J., Whitton, C., …Green, G. (2012). Gamma activation in young people with autism spectrum disorders and typically-developing controls when viewing emotions on faces. PLoS ONE, 7(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041326

Background: Behavioural studies have highlighted irregularities in recognition of facial affect in children and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Recent findings from studies utilising electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencepha... Read More about Gamma activation in young people with autism spectrum disorders and typically-developing controls when viewing emotions on faces.