Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (163)

Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial. (2024)
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Dudley, R., Dodgson, G., Common, S., Ogundimu, E., Liley, J., O’Grady, L., Watson, F., Gibbs, C., Arnott, B., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Aynsworth, C. (2024). Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 174, 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.04.031

Hallucinations are a common feature of psychosis, yet access to effective psychological treatment is limited. The Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences for First-Episode-Psychosis (MUSE-FEP) trial aimed to establish the feasibility and acceptability o... Read More about Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial..

Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties? (2023)
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Carrington, S. J., Uljarević, M., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., McConachie, H., Le Couteur, A., & Leekam, S. R. (2023). Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?. JCPP Advances, Article e12209. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12209

Background: Restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour (RRBs) serve an adaptive role in development. Elevated levels of RRBs beyond the early years, however, are associated with poorer outcome in language, cognition, and wellbeing, and are seen... Read More about Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?.

Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. (2023)
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Fernyhough, C., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12), S1364-6613(23)00210-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.014

Many people report a form of internal language known as inner speech (IS). This review examines recent growth of research interest in the phenomenon, which has broadly supported a theoretical model in which IS is a functional language process that ca... Read More about Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool..

Use of a targeted, computer/web-based guided self-help psychoeducation toolkit for distressing hallucinations (MUSE) in people with an at-risk mental state for psychosis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (2023)
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Hamilton, J., Arnott, B., Aynsworth, C., Barclay, N. A., Birkett, L., Brandon, T., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Use of a targeted, computer/web-based guided self-help psychoeducation toolkit for distressing hallucinations (MUSE) in people with an at-risk mental state for psychosis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 13(6), Article e076101. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076101

Individuals who access at-risk mental state (ARMS) services often have unusual sensory experiences and levels of distress that lead them to seek help. The Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences (MUSE) treatment is a brief symptom targeted intervention... Read More about Use of a targeted, computer/web-based guided self-help psychoeducation toolkit for distressing hallucinations (MUSE) in people with an at-risk mental state for psychosis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection (2022)
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Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 68(4), 639-667. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0045

This article promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding the phenomenological constituents of what Joyce calls “the mystery of the conscious” as simulated by modernist literary i... Read More about Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection.

‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study (2022)
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Davis, P. E., King, N., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2023). ‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study. Infant and Child Development, 32(2), Article e2390. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2390

Spontaneous imaginary companion (SIC) creation in childhood is a typical imaginative play behaviour associated with advanced sociocognitive skills; however, the direction of causality has not been established. To investigate this experimentally, rese... Read More about ‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study.

Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis (2022)
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Dudley, R., Watson, F., O'Grady, L., Aynsworth, C., Dodgson, G., Common, S., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 319(2023), Article 114988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114988

Hallucinations can occur in single or multiple sensory modalities. This study explored how common these experiences were in people with first episode of psychosis (n = 82). Particular attention was paid to the number of modalities reported and whethe... Read More about Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis.

Concepts, abstractness and inner speech (2022)
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Borghi, A. M., & Fernyhough, C. (2023). Concepts, abstractness and inner speech. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1870), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0371

We explore the role of inner speech (covert self-directed talk) during the acquisition and use of concepts differing in abstractness. Following Vygotsky, inner speech results from the internalization of linguistically mediated interactions that regul... Read More about Concepts, abstractness and inner speech.

Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices (2022)
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Moseley, P., Powell, A., Woods, A., Fernyhough, C., & Alderson-Day, B. (2022). Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 48(5), 1066-1074. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac054

Background and Hypothesis: Voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical groups has previously been compared using standardized assessments of psychotic experiences. Findings from several studies suggest that nonclinical voice-hearing is distinguished by... Read More about Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices.

Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial (2022)
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Dudley, R., Dodgson, G., Common, S., O'Grady, L., Watson, F., Gibbs, C., …Aynsworth, C. (2022). Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 12(5), Article e061827. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061827

Introduction Hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that others do not) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Existing treatments such as cognitive–behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) have modest benef... Read More about Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology (2022)
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Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Moffatt, J., Lee, R., Foxwell, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 53(8), 3692-3700. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722000344

Background Experiences of felt presence (FP) are well documented in neurology, neuropsychology and bereavement research, but systematic research in relation to psychopathology is limited. FP is a feature of sensorimotor disruption in psychosis, hypna... Read More about Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology.

Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but not directed modulation of top-down expectations for speech (2022)
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Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Lima, C. F., Krishnan, S., Fernyhough, C., Scott, S. K., …Evans, S. (2022). Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but not directed modulation of top-down expectations for speech. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2022(1), Article niac002. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niac002

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs)—or hearing voices—occur in clinical and non-clinical populations, but their mechanisms remain unclear. Predictive processing models of psychosis have proposed that hallucinations arise from an over-weighting of p... Read More about Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but not directed modulation of top-down expectations for speech.

Hearing voices as a feature of typical and psychopathological experience (2022)
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Toh, W. L., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Hearing voices as a feature of typical and psychopathological experience. Nature reviews psychology, 1(2), 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00013-z

Hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker can be a significant feature of psychiatric illness, but is also increasingly acknowledged as an important aspect of everyday, non-pathological experience. This recognition has led to a growth of interest... Read More about Hearing voices as a feature of typical and psychopathological experience.

Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Mechanisms Associated With Clinical and Nonclinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2022)
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Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Common, S., Dodgson, G., Lee, R., Mitrenga, K., Moffatt, J., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Mechanisms Associated With Clinical and Nonclinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(4), 752–766. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211059802

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are typically associated with schizophrenia but also occur in individuals without any need for care (nonclinical voice hearers [NCVHs]). Cognitive models of AVHs posit potential biases in source monitoring, top-d... Read More about Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Mechanisms Associated With Clinical and Nonclinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Item-specific overlap between hallucinatory experiences and cognition in the general population: A three-step multivariate analysis of international multi-site data (2021)
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Chinchani, A. M., Menon, M., Roes, M., Hwang, H., Allen, P., Bell, V., …Woodward, T. S. (2021). Item-specific overlap between hallucinatory experiences and cognition in the general population: A three-step multivariate analysis of international multi-site data. Cortex, 145, 131 - 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.014

Hallucinatory experiences (HEs) can be pronounced in psychosis, but similar experiences also occur in nonclinical populations. Cognitive mechanisms hypothesized to underpin HEs include dysfunctional source monitoring, heightened signal detection, and... Read More about Item-specific overlap between hallucinatory experiences and cognition in the general population: A three-step multivariate analysis of international multi-site data.

Explaining the relation between early mind-mindedness and children’s mentalizing abilities: The development of an observational preschool assessment (2021)
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Fishburn, S., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Centifanti, L., & Larkin, F. (2022). Explaining the relation between early mind-mindedness and children’s mentalizing abilities: The development of an observational preschool assessment. Developmental Psychology, 58(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001272

The aim of this research was to develop a new observation-based measure for assessing caregivers’ mind-mindedness in the preschool years and investigate whether this measure could explain the link between mothers’ early appropriate mind-related comme... Read More about Explaining the relation between early mind-mindedness and children’s mentalizing abilities: The development of an observational preschool assessment.

Modulating medial prefrontal cortex activity using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Effects on reality monitoring performance and associated functional connectivity (2021)
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Garrison, J., Saviola, F., Morgenroth, E., Barker, H., Lührs, M., Simons, J., …Allen, P. (2021). Modulating medial prefrontal cortex activity using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Effects on reality monitoring performance and associated functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 245, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118640

Neuroimaging studies have found ‘reality monitoring’, our ability to distinguish internally generated experiences from those derived from the external world, to be associated with activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of the brain. Here we... Read More about Modulating medial prefrontal cortex activity using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Effects on reality monitoring performance and associated functional connectivity.

Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering (2021)
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Simons, J. S., Ritchey, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering. Annual Review of Psychology, 73, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-030221-025439

The ability to remember events in vivid, multisensory detail is a significant part of human experience, allowing us to relive previous encounters and providing us with the store of memories that shape our identity. Recent research has sought to under... Read More about Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering.

Correlates of hallucinatory experiences in the general population: an international multi-site replication study (2021)
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Moseley, P., Aleman, A., Allen, P., Bell, V., Bless, J., Bortolon, C., …Fernyhough, C. (2021). Correlates of hallucinatory experiences in the general population: an international multi-site replication study. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1024-1037

Hallucinatory experiences can occur in both clinical and nonclinical groups. However, in previous studies of the general population, investigations of the cognitive mechanisms underlying hallucinatory experiences have yielded inconsistent results. We... Read More about Correlates of hallucinatory experiences in the general population: an international multi-site replication study.

Mind‐mindedness versus mentalistic interpretations of behavior: Is mind‐mindedness a relational construct? (2020)
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Larkin, F., Schacht, R., Oostenbroek, J., Hayward, E., Fernyhough, C., Muñoz Centifanti, L. C., & Meins, E. (2021). Mind‐mindedness versus mentalistic interpretations of behavior: Is mind‐mindedness a relational construct?. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42(2), 176-187. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21901

Mind‐mindedness is a measure of the tendency to represent significant others in internal state terms and is central to supportive parent–infant relationships. The two studies reported here explored whether mind‐mindedness generalizes to representatio... Read More about Mind‐mindedness versus mentalistic interpretations of behavior: Is mind‐mindedness a relational construct?.

Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group (2020)
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Dodgson, G., Aynsworth, C., Mitrenga, K. J., Gibbs, C., Patton, V., Fernyhough, C., …Common, S. (2021). Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(3), 481 - 503. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12323

Objectives To conduct a feasibility study on a new, tablet-delivered treatment for unusual sensory experiences in service-users with an At Risk Mental States for psychosis. Design A mixed method design was employed, using content analysis to investig... Read More about Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group.

Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing using a novel tabletised manual: a feasibility study (2020)
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Dodgson, G., Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Ryles, F., Mayer, C., Glen-Davison, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2021). Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing using a novel tabletised manual: a feasibility study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49(3), 287-301. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352465820000661

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a recommended treatment for psychotic experiences, but its effectiveness has been questioned. One way of addressing this may be to tailor therapy materials to the phenomenology of spec... Read More about Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing using a novel tabletised manual: a feasibility study.

Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech (2020)
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Moffatt, J., Mitrenga, K. J., Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2020). Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech. PLoS ONE, 15(9), Article e0238920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238920

Ruminative thought is a style of thinking which involves repetitively focusing upon one’s own negative mood, its causes and its consequences. The negative effects of rumination are well-documented, but comparatively little is known about how ruminati... Read More about Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech.

A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations (2020)
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Montagnese, M., Leptourgos, P., Fernyhough, C., Waters, F., Larøi, F., Jardri, R., …Urwyler, P. (2021). A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 47(1), 237 - 248. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa101

Hallucinations can occur in different sensory modalities, both simultaneously and serially in time. They have typically been studied in clinical populations as phenomena occurring in a single sensory modality. Hallucinatory experiences occurring in m... Read More about A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations.

Real-Time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback for the Relief of Distressing Auditory-Verbal Hallucinations: Methodological and Empirical Advances (2020)
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Humpston, C., Garrison, J., Orlov, N., Aleman, A., Jardri, R., Fernyhough, C., & Allen, P. (2020). Real-Time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback for the Relief of Distressing Auditory-Verbal Hallucinations: Methodological and Empirical Advances. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 46(6), 1409-1417. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa103

Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH) are often associated with high levels of distress and disability in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. In around 30% of individuals with distressing AVH and diagnosed with schizophrenia, traditiona... Read More about Real-Time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback for the Relief of Distressing Auditory-Verbal Hallucinations: Methodological and Empirical Advances.

Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network (2020)
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Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Bernini, M., Mitrenga, K., Yao, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2020). Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01571

Stories transport readers into vivid imaginative worlds, but understanding how readers create such worlds—populating them with characters, objects, and events—presents serious challenges across disciplines. Auditory imagery is thought to play a promi... Read More about Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network.

Towards an interdisciplinary science of the subjective experience of remembering (2020)
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Simons, J. S., Mitrenga, K., & Fernyhough, C. (2020). Towards an interdisciplinary science of the subjective experience of remembering. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 32, 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.01.018

Some of the most interesting advances in the study of episodic memory have come from considering different levels of analysis. In this article, we focus on how insights from multiple disciplines can inform understanding of the subjective experience o... Read More about Towards an interdisciplinary science of the subjective experience of remembering.

‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices (2020)
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Foxwell, J., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Woods, A. (2020). ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices. Consciousness and Cognition, 79, Article 102901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901

Writers often report vivid experiences of hearing characters talking to them, talking back to them, and exhibiting independence and autonomy. However, systematic empirical studies of this phenomenon are almost non-existent, and as a result little is... Read More about ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices.

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (2019)
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Fernyhough, C. (2019). Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations. Psychological Medicine, 49(16), 2639-2645. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291719002496

There is a growing recognition in psychosis research of the importance of hallucinations in modalities other than the auditory. This has focused attention on cognitive and neural processes that might be shared by, and which might contribute distinctl... Read More about Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations.

A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development (2019)
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Geva, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708

Inner speech emerges in early childhood, in parallel with the maturation of the dorsal language stream. To date, the developmental relations between these two processes have not been examined. We review evidence that the dorsal language stream has a... Read More about A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development.

Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations (2019)
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Mitrenga, K. J., Alderson-Day, B., May, L., Moffatt, J., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations. PLoS ONE, 14(8), Article e0221127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221127

People rapidly make first impressions of others, often based on very little information–minimal exposure to faces or voices is sufficient for humans to make up their mind about personality of others. While there has been considerable research on voic... Read More about Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations.

Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations? (2019)
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Fernyhough, C., Watson, A., Bernini, M., Moseley, P., & Alderson-Day, B. (2019). Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01665

Interacting with imaginary companions (ICs) is now considered a natural part of childhood for many children, and has been associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes. Recent research has explored how the phenomenon of ICs in childhood... Read More about Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?.

The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people (2019)
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Hadden, L. M., Alderson‐Day, B., Jackson, M., Fernyhough, C., & Bentall, R. P. (2020). The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 93(1), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12234

Objectives: Psychological models of voice‐hearing propose that auditory‐verbal hallucinations occur when inner speech is attributed to a source external to the self. Approximately half of the world's population is multilingual, and the extent to whic... Read More about The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people.

Auditory Hallucinations: Does a Continuum of Severity Entail Continuity in Mechanism? (2019)
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Waters, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). Auditory Hallucinations: Does a Continuum of Severity Entail Continuity in Mechanism?. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 45(4), 717-719. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz002

Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians (2019)
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Maijer, K., Hayward, M., Fernyhough, C., Calkins, M. E., Debbané, M., Jardri, R., …Bartels-Velthuis, A. A. (2019). Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 45(Supplement_1), S5-S23. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby119

Hallucinations in children and adolescents are now known to occur on a continuum from healthy to psychopathology-related phenomena. Although hallucinations in young populations are mostly transient, they can cause substantial distress. Despite halluc... Read More about Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians.

Investigating Multiple Streams of Consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to Explore Internally and Externally Directed Streams of Thought (2018)
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Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., Hurlburt, R. T., & Kühn, S. (2018). Investigating Multiple Streams of Consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to Explore Internally and Externally Directed Streams of Thought. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, Article 494. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00494

Research into resting-state cognition has often struggled with the challenge of assessing inner experience in the resting state. We employed Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), a method aimed at generating detailed and high-fidelity descriptions o... Read More about Investigating Multiple Streams of Consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to Explore Internally and Externally Directed Streams of Thought.

Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms (2018)
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Davis, P. E., Webster, L. A., Fernyhough, C., Ralston, K., Kola-Palmer, S., & Stain, H. J. (2019). Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 271, 150-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.046

Hallucination and dissociation have been found to be associated with imaginary friend play in childhood (CIC). Past studies have not investigated how this play relates to adult prodromal symptoms or how childhood adversity mediates the relationship.... Read More about Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms.

Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups (2018)
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Garrison, J., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Simons, J., & Sommer, I. (2019). Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 45(4), 733-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby157

Hallucinations are a characteristic symptom of psychotic mental health conditions that are also experienced by many individuals without a clinical diagnosis. Hallucinations in schizophrenia have been linked to differences in the length of the paracin... Read More about Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups.

Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring (2018)
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Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Ellison, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring. Neuropsychologia, 120, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.10.001

Source monitoring, or the ability to recall the origin of information, is a crucial aspect of remembering past experience. One facet of this, reality monitoring, refers to the ability to distinguish between internally generated and externally generat... Read More about Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring.

Musical hallucinations, musical imagery, and earworms: A new phenomenological survey (2018)
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Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Kumar, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Musical hallucinations, musical imagery, and earworms: A new phenomenological survey. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.009

Musical hallucinations (MH) account for a significant proportion of auditory hallucinations, but there is a relative lack of research into their phenomenology. In contrast, much research has focused on other forms of internally generated musical expe... Read More about Musical hallucinations, musical imagery, and earworms: A new phenomenological survey.

The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology (2018)
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Alderson-Day, B., Mitrenga, K., Wilkinson, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.001

Inner speech is a common experience for many but hard to measure empirically. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ) has been used to link everyday phenomenology of inner speech – such as inner dialogue – to various psychopathological tra... Read More about The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology.

Origins of mother–child reminiscing style (2018)
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Reese, E., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., & Centifanti, L. (2019). Origins of mother–child reminiscing style. Development and Psychopathology, 31(2), 631-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418000172

Maternal elaborative reminiscing supports preschool children's autobiographical memory, self-concept, and emotion understanding. What are the factors contributing to mothers' elaborative style of reminiscing? In a longitudinal community sample (n = 1... Read More about Origins of mother–child reminiscing style.

Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children (2018)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., & Centifanti, L. (2019). Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children. Child Development, 90(4), e454-e467. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13028

Relations between mothers' mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments) at 8 months (N = 206), and children's educational attainment at ages 7 (n = 158) and 11 (n = 156) were investigated in a British sample. Appropriate mind-re... Read More about Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children.

Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2017)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C., & Scott, S. (2017). Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain, 140(9), 2475-2489. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx206

Auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices) are typically associated with psychosis, but a minority of the general population also experience them frequently and without distress. Such ‘non-clinical’ experiences offer a rare and unique opportunit... Read More about Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes? (2017)
Journal Article
Uljarević, M., Arnott, B., Carrington, S., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., McConachie, H., …Leekam, S. (2017). Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes?. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1859-1868. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000324

A community sample of 192 parents reported on their children’s restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) at mean ages 15 months (N = 138), 26 months (N = 191), and 77 months (N = 125) using the Repetitive Behavior Questionnaire-2 (RBQ-2). Consistent... Read More about Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes?.

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
Journal Article
Saunders, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0051-5

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience... Read More about Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices.

Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness (2017)
Journal Article
Schacht, R., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Centifanti, L., Pawlby, S., & Bureau, J. (2017). Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness. Development and Psychopathology, 29(2), 555-564. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417000177

Studies 1 and 2 investigated how maternal severe mental illness (SMI) related to mothers’ mind–mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments). Study 1 showed that mothers with SMI (n = 50) scored lower than psychologically well mothers... Read More about Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness.

Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability (2017)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Bureau, J., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability. Child Development, 89(3), 1022-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12778

Relations between maternal mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments), children's age-2 perspective-taking abilities, and attachment security at 44 (n = 165) and 51 (n = 128) months were investigated. Nonattuned comments predi... Read More about Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability.

Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences (2017)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we present the r... Read More about Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences.

Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Hurlburt, R., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Kühn, S. (2017). Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 43. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00043

We discuss the historical context for explorations of “pristine inner experience,” attempts to apprehend and describe the inner experiences that directly present themselves in natural environments. There is no generally accepted method for determinin... Read More about Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives.

Auditory verbal hallucinations and inner speech : a predictive processing perspective (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Auditory verbal hallucinations and inner speech : a predictive processing perspective. In Z. Radman (Ed.), Before consciousness : in search of the fundamentals of mind (285-304). Imprint Academic

Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations (2016)
Journal Article
de Sousa, P., Sellwood, W., Spray, A., Fernyhough, C., & Bentall, R. (2016). Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204(12), 885-893. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0000000000000584

Eighty patients and thirty controls were interviewed using one interview that promoted personal disclosure and another about everyday topics. Speech was scored using the Thought, Language and Communication scale (TLC). All participants completed the... Read More about Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations.

Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations (2016)
Journal Article
Garrison, J., Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Fernyhough, C., & Simons, J. (2017). Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations. Cortex, 91, 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.11.011

People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources) compared to non-hallucinating patients and healthy individu... Read More about Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations.

Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes (2016)
Journal Article
Waters, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 43(1), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw132

Hallucinations constitute one of the 5 symptom domains of psychotic disorders in DSM-5, suggesting diagnostic significance for that group of disorders. Although specific featural properties of hallucinations (negative voices, talking in the third per... Read More about Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes.

How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development? (2016)
Journal Article
Larkin, F., Meins, E., Centifanti, L. C. M., Fernyhough, C., & Leekam, S. (2017). How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development?. Development and Psychopathology, 29(3), 863-874. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579416000535

Relations between restricted and repetitive behavior at age 26 months and children's concurrent (N = 203) and later (n = 161) social cognition and language development were investigated. Restricted and repetitive behavior was assessed using two scale... Read More about How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development?.

Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations (2016)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Diederen, K., Fernyhough, C., Ford, J. M., Horga, G., Margulies, D. S., …Jardri, R. (2016). Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 42(5), 1110-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw078

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential for alterations to the brain’s resting-state networks (RSNs) to explain various kinds of psychopathology. RSNs provide an intriguing new explanatory framework for hallucinations, wh... Read More about Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations.

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain (2015)
Journal Article
Garrison, J., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Haggard, M., Bank, T. A. S. R., & Simons, J. (2015). Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain. Nature Communications, 6, Article 8956. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9956

Hallucinations are common in psychiatric disorders, and are also experienced by many individuals who are not mentally ill. Here, in 153 participants, we investigate brain structural markers that predict the occurrence of hallucinations by comparing p... Read More about Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain.

What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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 effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in hallucination-prone individuals (2015)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Smailes, D., Ellison, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). The effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in hallucination-prone individuals. Cognition, 146, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.015

Cognitive models have suggested that auditory hallucinations occur when internal mental events, such as inner speech or auditory verbal imagery (AVI), are misattributed to an external source. This has been supported by numerous studies indicating tha... Read More about The effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in hallucination-prone individuals.

Risk of depression and self-harm in teenagers identifying with goth subculture: a longitudinal cohort study (2015)
Journal Article
Bowes, L., Carnegie, R., Pearson, R., Mars, B., Biddle, L., Maughan, B., …Heron, J. (2015). Risk of depression and self-harm in teenagers identifying with goth subculture: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(9), 793-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900164-9

Background Previous research has suggested that deliberate self-harm is associated with contemporary goth subculture in young people; however, whether this association is confounded by characteristics of young people, their families, and their circum... Read More about Risk of depression and self-harm in teenagers identifying with goth subculture: a longitudinal cohort study.

The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others (2015)
Journal Article
Centifanti, L., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(1), 84-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12445

Background: Problems in understanding other people’s mental states may relate to distinct personality traits that are associated with early externalizing behavior. A distinction between theory of mind (ToM) and empathy has proven important in sheddin... Read More about Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others.

Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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?.

Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults (2014)
Journal Article
Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2014.973487

Introduction. People who experience intrusive thoughts are at increased risk of developing hallucinatory experiences, as are people who have weak reality discrimination skills. No study has yet examined whether these two factors interact to make a pe... Read More about Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults.

Hearing voices (2014)
Book Chapter
Woods, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Hearing voices. In J. Holden, J. Kieffer, J. Newbigin, & S. Wright (Eds.), Where does it hurt? The new world of the medical humanities (84-85). Wellcome Trust

Cognitive styles and future depressed mood in early adulthood: The importance of global attributions (2014)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., Heron, J., Button, K., Bentall, R., Fernyhough, C., Mahedy, L., …Lewis, G. (2015). Cognitive styles and future depressed mood in early adulthood: The importance of global attributions. Journal of Affective Disorders, 171, 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.08.057

Background: Cognitive theories of depression suggest that beliefs of low self-worth and the tendency to attribute negative events to causes that are global (widespread rather than specific) and stable (will persist rather than change in the future) a... Read More about Cognitive styles and future depressed mood in early adulthood: The importance of global attributions.

What have we learnt about the ability of cognitive behavioural therapy to help with voice-hearing? (2014)
Book Chapter
McCarthy-Jones, S., Thomas, N., Dodgson, G., Fernyhough, C., Brotherhood, E., Wilson, G., & Dudley, R. (2015). What have we learnt about the ability of cognitive behavioural therapy to help with voice-hearing?. In M. Hayward, C. Strauss, & S. McCarthy-Jones (Eds.), Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations: From theory to therapy (78-99). Routledge

The role of the superior temporal lobe in auditory false perceptions: A transcranial direct current stimulation study (2014)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Fernyhough, C., & Ellison, A. (2014). The role of the superior temporal lobe in auditory false perceptions: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 62, 202-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.032

Neuroimaging has shown that a network of cortical areas, which includes the superior temporal gyrus, is active during auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs). In the present study, healthy, non-hallucinating participants (N=30) completed an auditory si... Read More about The role of the superior temporal lobe in auditory false perceptions: A transcranial direct current stimulation study.

Shot through with voices: Dissociation mediates the relationship between varieties of inner speech and auditory hallucination proneness (2014)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions (2014)
Journal Article
Larøi, F., Luhrmann, T., Bell, V., Christian, W., Deshpande, S., Fernyhough, C., …Woods, A. (2014). Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S213-S220. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu012

A number of studies have explored hallucinations as complex experiences involving interactions between psychological, biological, and environmental factors and mechanisms. Nevertheless, relatively little attention has focused on the role of culture i... Read More about Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions.

From phenomenology to a neurophysiological understanding of hallucinations in children and adolescents (2014)
Journal Article
Jardri, R., Bartels-Velthuis, A., Debbané, M., Jenner, J., Kelleher, I., Dauvillier, Y., …Fernyhough, C. (2014). From phenomenology to a neurophysiological understanding of hallucinations in children and adolescents. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S221-S232. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu029

Typically reported as vivid, multisensory experiences which may spontaneously resolve, hallucinations are present at high rates during childhood. The risk of associated psychopathology is a major cause of concern. On the one hand, the risk of develop... Read More about From phenomenology to a neurophysiological understanding of hallucinations in children and adolescents.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2014)
Journal Article
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.

Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends (2014)
Journal Article
Davis, P., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends. Infant and Child Development, 23(6), 622-633. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1869

Relations between having an imaginary companion (IC) and (i) descriptions of a real-life friend, (ii) theory of mind performance, and (iii) reported prosocial behaviour and behavioural difficulties were investigated in a sample of 5-year-olds (N = 15... Read More about Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends.

The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination (2014)
Journal Article
Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45(3), 389-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.04.001

Background and objectives: People who experience auditory hallucinations tend to show weak reality discrimination skills, so that they misattribute internal, self-generated events to an external, non-self source. We examined whether inducing negative... Read More about The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination.

More than one voice: Investigating the phenomenological properties of inner speech requires a variety of methods (2014)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). More than one voice: Investigating the phenomenological properties of inner speech requires a variety of methods. Consciousness and Cognition, 24, 113-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.12.012

Is mind-mindedness trait-like or a quality of close relationships? Evidence from descriptions of significant others, famous people, and works of art (2014)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., & Harris-Waller, J. (2014). Is mind-mindedness trait-like or a quality of close relationships? Evidence from descriptions of significant others, famous people, and works of art. Cognition, 130(3), 417-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.009

The four studies reported here sought to explore the nature of the construct of mind-mindedness. In Study 1, involving 37 mothers of 5- to 8-year-old children, mothers’ verbal mind-minded descriptions of their children were positively correlated with... Read More about Is mind-mindedness trait-like or a quality of close relationships? Evidence from descriptions of significant others, famous people, and works of art.

Report on the 2nd International Consortium on Hallucination Research: Evolving Directions and Top-10 “Hot Spots” in Hallucination Research (2013)
Journal Article
Waters, F., Woods, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Report on the 2nd International Consortium on Hallucination Research: Evolving Directions and Top-10 “Hot Spots” in Hallucination Research. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(1), 24-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbt167

This article presents a report on the 2nd meeting of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research, held on September 12th and 13th 2013 at Durham University, UK. Twelve working groups involving specialists in each area presented their findi... Read More about Report on the 2nd International Consortium on Hallucination Research: Evolving Directions and Top-10 “Hot Spots” in Hallucination Research.

Cognitive styles and psychotic experiences in a community sample (2013)
Journal Article
Sullivan, S., Bentall, R., Fernyhough, C., Pearson, R., & Zammit, S. (2013). Cognitive styles and psychotic experiences in a community sample. PLoS ONE, 8(11), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080055

Introduction: In clinical populations paranoid delusions are associated with making global, stable and external attributions for negative events. Paranoia is common in community samples but it is not known whether it is associated with a similar cogn... Read More about Cognitive styles and psychotic experiences in a community sample.

Individual differences in children’s private speech: The role of imaginary companions (2013)
Journal Article
Davis, P., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2013). Individual differences in children’s private speech: The role of imaginary companions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(3), 561-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.06.010

Relations between children’s imaginary companion status and their engagement in private speech during free play were investigated in a socially diverse sample of 5-year-olds (N = 148). Controlling for socioeconomic status, receptive verbal ability, t... Read More about Individual differences in children’s private speech: The role of imaginary companions.

Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option (2013)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Fernyhough, C., & Ellison, A. (2013). Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(10), 2794-2805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.001

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are the experience of hearing voices in the absence of any speaker, often associated with a schizophrenia diagnosis. Prominent cognitive models of AVHs suggest they may be the result of inner speech being misattr... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option.

Thinking aloud about mental voices. (2013)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C., & McCarthy-Jones, S. (2013). Thinking aloud about mental voices. In F. Macpherson, & D. Platchias (Eds.), Hallucination (87-104). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s behavioral difficulties: Mitigating the impact of low socioeconomic status (2013)
Journal Article
Meins, L., Centifanti, L., Fernyhough, C., & Fishburn, S. (2013). Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s behavioral difficulties: Mitigating the impact of low socioeconomic status. Journal of abnormal child psychology (Dordrecht. Online), 41(4), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-012-9699-3

Relations between mothers’ tendency to comment appropriately on their 8-month-olds’ internal states (mind-mindedness) and children’s behavioral difficulties (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) at ages 44 and 61 months were investigated in a so... Read More about Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s behavioral difficulties: Mitigating the impact of low socioeconomic status.

Association Between Maternal Depressogenic Cognitive Style During Pregnancy and Offspring Cognitive Style 18 Years Later. (2013)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., Fernyhough, C., Bentall, R., Evans, J., Heron, J., Joinson, C., …Lewis, G. (2013). Association Between Maternal Depressogenic Cognitive Style During Pregnancy and Offspring Cognitive Style 18 Years Later. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 170(4), 434-441. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12050673

Objective Understanding the origins of negative cognitive style could provide a means to prevent adult depression. Cognitive style is an important target for intervention because although it is not possible to remove the stress and adversities in peo... Read More about Association Between Maternal Depressogenic Cognitive Style During Pregnancy and Offspring Cognitive Style 18 Years Later..

Stop, look, listen: The need for philosophical phenomenological perspectives on auditory verbal hallucinations (2013)
Journal Article
McCarthy-Jones, S., Krueger, J., Larøi, F., Broome, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2013). Stop, look, listen: The need for philosophical phenomenological perspectives on auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00127

One of the leading cognitive models of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) proposes such experiences result from a disturbance in the process by which inner speech is attributed to the self. Research in this area has, however, proceeded in the abse... Read More about Stop, look, listen: The need for philosophical phenomenological perspectives on auditory verbal hallucinations.

Inner speech. (2013)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2013). Inner speech. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Mind. SAGE Publications

Mind-Mindedness and Theory of Mind: Mediating Roles of Language and Perspectival Symbolic Play (2013)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Arnott, B., Leekam, S., & de Rosnay, M. (2013). Mind-Mindedness and Theory of Mind: Mediating Roles of Language and Perspectival Symbolic Play. Child Development, 84(5), 1777-1790. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12061

Relations among indices of maternal mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments) and children's: (a) internal state vocabulary and perspectival symbolic play at 26 months (N = 206), and (b) theory of mind (ToM) at 51 months (n =... Read More about Mind-Mindedness and Theory of Mind: Mediating Roles of Language and Perspectival Symbolic Play.

Self-regulatory private speech relates to children's recall and organization of autobiographical memories. (2012)
Journal Article
Al-Namlah, A., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2012). Self-regulatory private speech relates to children's recall and organization of autobiographical memories. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 441-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.02.005

We investigated relations between 4- and 7-year-olds’ (N = 58) autobiographical memory and their use of self-regulatory private speech in a non-mnemonic context (a cognitive planning task). Children's use of self-regulatory private speech during the... Read More about Self-regulatory private speech relates to children's recall and organization of autobiographical memories..

The phenomenological features of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and across clinical disorders: A state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation. (2012)
Journal Article
Larøi, F., Sommer, I., Blom, J., Fernyhough, C., ffytche, D., Hugdahl, K., …Waters, F. (2012). The phenomenological features of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and across clinical disorders: A state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 38(4), 724-733. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbs061

Despite a growing interest in auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) in different clinical and nonclinical groups, the phenomenological characteristics of such experiences have not yet been reviewed and contrasted, limiting our understanding of these... Read More about The phenomenological features of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and across clinical disorders: A state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation..

Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia and nonschizophrenia populations: A review and integrated model of cognitive mechanisms (2012)
Journal Article
Waters, F., Allen, P., Aleman, A., Fernyhough, C., Woodward, T., Badcock, J., …Larøi, F. (2012). Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia and nonschizophrenia populations: A review and integrated model of cognitive mechanisms. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 38(4), 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbs045

While the majority of cognitive studies on auditory hallucinations (AHs) have been conducted in schizophrenia (SZ), an increasing number of researchers are turning their attention to different clinical and nonclinical populations, often using SZ find... Read More about Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia and nonschizophrenia populations: A review and integrated model of cognitive mechanisms.

Mind-mindedness as a multidimensional construct: Appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments independently predict infant–mother attachment in a socially diverse sample (2012)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., de Rosnay, M., Arnott, B., Leekam, S., & Turner, M. (2012). Mind-mindedness as a multidimensional construct: Appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments independently predict infant–mother attachment in a socially diverse sample. Infancy, 17(4), 393-415. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00087.x

In a socially diverse sample of 206 infant–mother pairs, we investigated predictors of infants’ attachment security at 15 months, with a particular emphasis on mothers’ tendency to comment appropriately or in a non-attuned manner on their 8-month-old... Read More about Mind-mindedness as a multidimensional construct: Appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments independently predict infant–mother attachment in a socially diverse sample.

Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia (2012)
Journal Article
Alba-Ferrara, L., Fernyhough, C., Weis, S., Mitchell, R., & Hausmann, M. (2012). Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 32(4), 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2012.02.003

Deficits in emotional processing have been widely described in schizophrenia. Associations of positive symptoms with poor emotional prosody comprehension (EPC) have been reported at the phenomenological, behavioral, and neural levels. This review foc... Read More about Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

Verbal mediation of cognition in children with Specific Language Impairment (2012)
Journal Article
Lidstone, J., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2012). Verbal mediation of cognition in children with Specific Language Impairment. Development and Psychopathology, 24(2), 651-660. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579412000223

Private speech (PS) and inner speech (IS) are thought to be functionally important for children's and adults’ cognition, but they have not been studied systematically in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Participants were 21 children... Read More about Verbal mediation of cognition in children with Specific Language Impairment.

Assessing negative cognitive style: Development and validation of a short-form version of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire (2012)
Journal Article
Meins, E., McCarthy-Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., Lewis, G., Bentall, R., & Alloy, L. (2012). Assessing negative cognitive style: Development and validation of a short-form version of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(5), 581-585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.11.026

The Cognitive Style Questionnaire (CSQ) is a frequently employed measure of negative cognitive style, associated with vulnerability to anxiety and depression. However, the CSQ’s length can limit its utility in research. We describe the development of... Read More about Assessing negative cognitive style: Development and validation of a short-form version of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire.

Individual differences in children's private speech: Consistency across tasks, timepoints, and contexts. (2011)
Journal Article
Lidstone, J., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2011). Individual differences in children's private speech: Consistency across tasks, timepoints, and contexts. Cognitive Development, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.02.002

Individual differences in infants' joint attention behaviors with mother and a new social partner (2011)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Arnott, B., Vittorini, L., Turner, M., Leekam, S., & Parkinson, K. (2011). Individual differences in infants' joint attention behaviors with mother and a new social partner. Infancy, 16(6), 587-610. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00065.x

Mother- versus infant-centered correlates of maternal mind-mindedness in the first year of life (2011)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Arnott, B., Turner, M., & Leekam, S. (2011). Mother- versus infant-centered correlates of maternal mind-mindedness in the first year of life. Infancy, 16(2), 137-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00039.x

The varieties of inner speech: Links between quality of inner speech and psychopathological variables in a sample of young adults (2011)
Journal Article
McCarthy-Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2011). The varieties of inner speech: Links between quality of inner speech and psychopathological variables in a sample of young adults. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1586-1593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.005

When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (2011)
Journal Article
McCarthy-Jones, S., Barnes, L., Hill, G., Marwood, L., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2011). When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(6), 787-790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.003

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) hallucinations are those experienced on the borders of sleep and waking. Intrusive thoughts have been proposed to relate to the occurrence of such experiences. In a sample of students (N = 299), the present study inve... Read More about When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations.

Even ‘internalist’ minds are social. (2011)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2011). Even ‘internalist’ minds are social. Style (Fayetteville), 45(2), 272–275. https://doi.org/10.5325/style.45.2.0272

Self-knowledge in childhood: Relations with children’s imaginary companions and understanding of mind (2011)
Journal Article
Davis, P., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2011). Self-knowledge in childhood: Relations with children’s imaginary companions and understanding of mind. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(3), 680-686. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835x.2011.02038.x

Relations between interior self-knowledge and (a) imaginary companion (IC) status, and (b) theory of mind abilities were investigated in a sample (N=80) of 4- to 7-year-olds. Interior self-knowledge was assessed in terms of the extent to which childr... Read More about Self-knowledge in childhood: Relations with children’s imaginary companions and understanding of mind.

The roles of private speech and inner speech in planning during middle childhood: Evidence from a dual task paradigm (2010)
Journal Article
Lidstone, J., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2010). The roles of private speech and inner speech in planning during middle childhood: Evidence from a dual task paradigm. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107(4), 438-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2010.06.002

Children often talk themselves through their activities, producing private speech that is internalized to form inner speech. This study assessed the effect of articulatory suppression (which suppresses private and inner speech) on Tower of London per... Read More about The roles of private speech and inner speech in planning during middle childhood: Evidence from a dual task paradigm.

Mind-mindedness and maternal responsiveness in infant–mother interactions in mothers with severe mental illness (2010)
Journal Article
Pawlby, S., Fernyhough, C., Meins, E., Pariante, C., Seneviratne, G., & Bentall, R. (2010). Mind-mindedness and maternal responsiveness in infant–mother interactions in mothers with severe mental illness. Psychological Medicine, 40(11), 1861-1869. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291709992340

Background. Previous cross-diagnosis studies of interaction between mothers with severe mental illness and their babies have concluded that mothers with schizophrenia have deficits in interaction. These studies have failed to include healthy controls... Read More about Mind-mindedness and maternal responsiveness in infant–mother interactions in mothers with severe mental illness.

A phenomenological survey of auditory verbal hallucinations in the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states. (2010)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., & Larøi, F. (2010). A phenomenological survey of auditory verbal hallucinations in the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 9(2), 213-224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-010-9158-y

The phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) occurring in hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) states has received little attention. In a sample of healthy participants (N = 325), 108 participants reported H&H AVHs and answered subsequent q... Read More about A phenomenological survey of auditory verbal hallucinations in the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states..

The frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviours in a community sample of 15 month-old infants (2010)
Journal Article
Arnott, B., McConachie, H., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Le Couteur, A., Turner, M., …Leekam, S. (2010). The frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviours in a community sample of 15 month-old infants. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 31(3), 223-229. https://doi.org/10.1097/dbp.0b013e3181d5a2ad

Objective: To investigate the frequency and pattern of a wide range of restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) in the second year of life. Method: Parents of 139 15-month-old typically developing infants from a community sample completed the Repet... Read More about The frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviours in a community sample of 15 month-old infants.

Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation. (2009)
Book
Winsler, A., Fernyhough, C., & Montero, I. (Eds.). (2009). Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation. Cambridge University Press

Did Emanuel Swedenborg have near-death experiences? Envisioning a developmental account of NDEs. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Did Emanuel Swedenborg have near-death experiences? Envisioning a developmental account of NDEs. Journal of near-death studies, 27(3), 157-187. https://doi.org/10.17514/jnds-2009-27-3-p157-187

The causes of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) voices and visions remain unclear. It has recently been argued that post-hoc diagnoses of schizophrenia and epilepsy are not congruent with Swedenborg's actual experiences. In this article we examine the... Read More about Did Emanuel Swedenborg have near-death experiences? Envisioning a developmental account of NDEs..

What can we say about the inner experience of the young child? (Commentary on Carruthers). (2009)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2009). What can we say about the inner experience of the young child? (Commentary on Carruthers). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 143-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x09000612

Private speech and theory of mind: Evidence for developing interfunctional relations. (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C., & Meins, E. (2009). Private speech and theory of mind: Evidence for developing interfunctional relations. In A. Winsler, C. Fernyhough, & I. Montero (Eds.), Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation. Cambridge University Press

Vygotsky, Luria, and the social brain. (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2009). Vygotsky, Luria, and the social brain. In J. Carpendale, G. Iarocci, U. Mueller, B. Sokol, & A. Young (Eds.), Self- and social-regulation: Exploring the relations between social interaction, social cognition, and the development of executive functions. Oxford University Press

Enhancing the relationship between mothers with severe mental illness and their infants. (2009)
Book Chapter
Pawlby, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Enhancing the relationship between mothers with severe mental illness and their infants. In J. Barlow, & P. Svanberg (Eds.), Keeping the baby in mind: Prevention in practice. Routledge

Voices of the mind. (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2009). Voices of the mind. In A. Amin, & M. O'Neill (Eds.), Thinking about almost everything: New ideas to light up minds. Profile Books

Dialogic thinking. (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2009). Dialogic thinking. In A. Winsler, C. Fernyhough, & I. Montero (Eds.), Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation. Cambridge University Press

Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills. (2009)
Journal Article
Lidstone, J., Fernyhough, C., Meins, E., & Whitehouse, A. (2009). Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1222-1225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0731-6

We present a new analysis of Whitehouse, Maybery, and Durkin’s (2006, Experiment 3) data on inner speech in children with autism (CWA). Because inner speech development is thought to depend on linguistically mediated social interaction, we hypothesiz... Read More about Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills..

Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations. (2009)
Journal Article
Laing, S., Fernyhough, C., Turner, M., & Freeston, M. (2009). Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations. Infant and Child Development, 18(4), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.627

Previous studies of childhood fear, worry, and ritualistic behaviour have been limited by restricted age ranges, narrow ranges of anxiety phenomena, non-comparable methodologies, and assessment of typical behaviour within a pathological context. Cont... Read More about Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations..

Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy (2009)
Journal Article
Corriveau, K., Harris, P., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Arnott, B., Elliott, L., …De Rosnay, M. (2009). Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy. Child Development, 80(3), 750-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01295.x

In a longitudinal study of attachment, children (N = 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their mother and a stranger make conflicting claims. In 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues were equally consistent with either person’s claim but children gener... Read More about Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy.

The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls (2009)
Journal Article
Langdon, R., Jones, S., Connaughton, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls. Psychological Medicine, 39(4), 655-663. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291708003978

Background Despite the popularity of inner-speech theories of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), little is known about the phenomenological qualities of inner speech in patients with schizophrenia who experience AVHs (Sz-AVHs), or how this compar... Read More about The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls.

Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(4), 562-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.032

In diathesis–stress models of psychosis, cortisol released in response to stressors is proposed to play a role in the development of psychotic experiences. Individual differences in cortisol response to stressors are therefore likely to play a role i... Read More about Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation..

In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., & Meads, D. (2009). In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(1), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.021

One factor limiting research involving hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) hallucinations is the lack of a brief, valid and reliable self-report measure of such experiences. The present paper reports on the development of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypno... Read More about In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire..

Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(1), 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.09.008

Although rumination has been proposed to play an important role in the creation of hallucinations, direct empirical tests of this proposal have not yet been performed. Employing a distinction between ruminative and reflective self-consciousness, we s... Read More about Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model..

Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms (2008)
Journal Article
Bentall, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2008). Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 34(6), 1012-1020. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbn103

It has become widely accepted that the psychotic disorders are endpoints of atypical developmental trajectories indexed by abnormal emotional and cognitive development early in life. However, the role of environmental factors in determining these tra... Read More about Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms.

A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences. (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, S., de-Wit, L., Fernyhough, C., & Meins, E. (2008). A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 576-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.08.008

The proposal that there is an illusion of conscious will has been supported by findings that priming of stimulus location in a task requiring judgements of action-authorship can enhance participants’ experience of agency. We attempted to replicate fi... Read More about A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences..

Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample. (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2008). Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(4), 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800802087830

Introduction. Thought suppression may play a role in the formation and/or maintenance of persecutory delusions, although this possibility has not yet been empirically studied. We investigated thought suppression levels in relation to the presence of... Read More about Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample..

Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults. (2008)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Jones, S., Whittle, C., Waterhouse, J., & Bentall, R. (2008). Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(3), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800801936516

Introduction. Previous studies of the relation between theory of mind (ToM) and schizotypy have suggested that ToM deficits may be associated with positive signs (e.g., hallucination- and delusion-like experiences). Good theoretical reasons exist to... Read More about Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults..

Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample. (2008)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., Hurndall, S., & Koronis, P. (2008). Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(4), 1000-1011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.026

Attachment has been proposed to relate to adult psychopathology, although strong evidence for this relation has not been documented. This study investigated peer attachment and parental bonding in relation to schizotypy in healthy adults (N = 154). P... Read More about Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample..

A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires. (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., de-Wit, L., & Meins, E. (2008). A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(2), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.014

Internet-based questionnaires (e-questionnaires) have become widely used in psychopathology research, but there is currently little evidence on their reliability as compared with pen-and-paper equivalents. Data from separate samples of young adults c... Read More about A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires..

Talking back to the spirits: The voices and visions of Emanuel Swedenborg. (2007)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Talking back to the spirits: The voices and visions of Emanuel Swedenborg. History of the Human Sciences, 21, 1-31

Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development (2007)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Bland, K., Meins, E., & Coltheart, M. (2007). Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(11), 1094-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01789.x

Background: Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognit... Read More about Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development.

Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21). (2007)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21). Personality and Individual Differences, 43(4), 647-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.018

The 21-item version of the Peters et al. Delusions Inventory (PDI-21) is a commonly used tool to measure delusional ideation in the normal population. Two recent principal component analyses have concluded that the PDI-21 has a seven-factor structure... Read More about Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21)..

Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences. (2007)
Journal Article
Bentall, R., Fernyhough, C., Morrison, A., Lewis, S., & Corcoran, R. (2007). Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46(2), 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466506x123011

Purpose It has recently been recognized that psychosis represents the end-point of abnormal developmental pathways. The neurodevelopmental framework, within which this observation has typically been interpreted, has a number of limitations, particula... Read More about Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences..

Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations. (2007)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations. Consciousness and Cognition, 16(2), 391-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2005.12.003

Passivity experiences in schizophrenia are thought to be due to a failure in a neurocognitive action self-monitoring system (NASS). Drawing on the assumption that inner speech is a form of action, a recent model of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH... Read More about Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations..

Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. (2007)
Journal Article
Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. Cognitive Development, 22(2), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.008

Preschoolers’ understanding that an object can be accurately described using two different non-synonymous words was investigated using a task in which children (N = 36) had to judge which of two animals had provided correct adjectival labels for a se... Read More about Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task..

The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample (2007)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(5), 1087-1097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.03.002

Possessing either an external locus of control (LOC) or low self-esteem (SE) has been demonstrated prospectively to predict schizophrenia onset. This may be due to the consequences of these qualities for stress perception and resultant cortisol relea... Read More about The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample.

Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding (2007)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2008). Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding. Developmental Review, 28(2), 225-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2007.03.001

The ideas of Vygotsky [Vygotsky, L. S. (1987). Thinking and speech. In The collected works of L. S. Vygotsky, (Vol. 1). New York: Plenum. (Original work published 1934.)] have been increasingly influential in accounting for social–environmental influ... Read More about Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding.

The roles of thought suppression and metacognitive beliefs in proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations in a non-clinical sample. (2006)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2006). The roles of thought suppression and metacognitive beliefs in proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations in a non-clinical sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 1421-1432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.003

Metaphors of mind. (2006)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2006). Metaphors of mind. Psychologist (Leicester), 19, 356-358

Private speech, executive functioning and theory of mind: A Vygotskian-Lurian synthesis. (2006)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2006). Private speech, executive functioning and theory of mind: A Vygotskian-Lurian synthesis. In I. Montero (Ed.), Current research trends in private speech: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on self-regulatory functions of language. University Press of Universidad Autónoma of Madrid

A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations (2006)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2006). A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 33(5), 1171-1177. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbl058

The neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that stress, through its effects on cortisol production, acts upon a preexisting vulnerability to trigger and/or worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia. In line with its focus on the neurobiol... Read More about A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations.

Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood (2006)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Johnson, F., & Lidstone, J. (2006). Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(1), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151005x80174

Children's use of internal-state language during 2 tasks (book narration and describing a best friend) was investigated in a sample (N=38) of 7- to 9-year-olds. Proportional use of internal-state talk on the two tasks was highly positively correlated... Read More about Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood.

Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration (2006)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2006). Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration. Clinical Psychology Review, 27(2), 140-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2006.10.001

The neuroimaging and neurophysiological literature on inner speech in healthy participants and those who experience auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) is reviewed. AVH-hearers in remission and controls do not differ neurologically on tasks involvi... Read More about Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration.

Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples (2006)
Journal Article
Al-Namlah, A., Fernyhough, C., & Meins, E. (2006). Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples. Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.117

Cross-national stability in private speech (PS) and short-term memory was investigated in Saudi Arabian (n = 63) and British (n = 58) 4- to 8-year-olds. Assumed differences in child-adult interaction between the 2 nationality groups led to prediction... Read More about Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples.

What is internalised? Dialogic cognitive representations and the mediated mind (Commentary on Tomasello et al.). (2005)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2005). What is internalised? Dialogic cognitive representations and the mediated mind (Commentary on Tomasello et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 698-699. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x05300124

Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance (2005)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., & Fradley, E. (2005). Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance. Cognitive Development, 20(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.11.002

Measures of private speech and task performance were obtained for a sample of 46 5- and 6-year-olds engaged on a mechanical version of the Tower of London (ToL) task. Two different sets of four puzzles of increasing difficulty were attempted on two o... Read More about Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance.

More than a context for learning? The epistemic triangle and the dialogic mind (Commentary on Carpendale & Lewis). (2004)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2004). More than a context for learning? The epistemic triangle and the dialogic mind (Commentary on Carpendale & Lewis). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 104-105. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04310034

Alien voices and inner dialogue: Towards a developmental account of auditory verbal hallucinations (2004)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2004). Alien voices and inner dialogue: Towards a developmental account of auditory verbal hallucinations. New Ideas in Psychology, 22, 49-68

Pathways to understanding mind: Construct validity and predictive validity of maternal mind-mindedness (2003)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Wainwright, R., Clark-Carter, D., Das Gupta, M., Fradley, E., & Tuckey, M. (2003). Pathways to understanding mind: Construct validity and predictive validity of maternal mind-mindedness. Child Development, 74(4), 1194-1211. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00601

The construct validity of maternal mind-mindedness (MM) was investigated in the context of its relations with children's later understanding of mind. MM measures were obtained from infant–mother (N=52) interactions at 6 months, and from maternal inte... Read More about Pathways to understanding mind: Construct validity and predictive validity of maternal mind-mindedness.

Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding (2002)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Wainwright, R., Das Gupta, M., Fradley, E., & Tuckey, M. (2002). Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding. Child Development, 73(6), 1715-1726. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00501

This study investigated relations between social interaction during infancy and children's subsequent theory of mind (ToM). Infant-mother pairs (N= 57) were observed in a free-play context at 6 months. Interactions were coded for (a) mothers' use of... Read More about Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding.

Rethinking maternal sensitivity: Mothers' comments on infants' mental processes predict security of attachment at 12 months (2001)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Fradley, E., & Tuckey, M. (2001). Rethinking maternal sensitivity: Mothers' comments on infants' mental processes predict security of attachment at 12 months. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(5), 637-648. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00759

This study investigated predictors of attachment security in a play context using a sample of 71 mothers and their 6-month-old infants. We sought to rethink the concept of maternal sensitivity by focusing on mothers' ability accurately to read the me... Read More about Rethinking maternal sensitivity: Mothers' comments on infants' mental processes predict security of attachment at 12 months.

Lev Vygotsky: Critical assessments. (1999)
Book
Lloyd, P., & Fernyhough, C. (Eds.). (1999). Lev Vygotsky: Critical assessments. Routledge

Linguistic acquisitional style and mentalising development: The role of maternal mind-mindedness. (1999)
Journal Article
Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (1999). Linguistic acquisitional style and mentalising development: The role of maternal mind-mindedness. Cognitive Development, 14, 363-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0885-2014%2899%2900010-6

Security of attachment as a predictor of symbolic and mentalising abilities: A longitudinal study. (1998)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Russell, J., & Clark-Carter, D. (1998). Security of attachment as a predictor of symbolic and mentalising abilities: A longitudinal study. Social Development, 7, 1-24

Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach: Theoretical issues and implications for current research. (1997)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (1997). Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach: Theoretical issues and implications for current research. In S. Hala (Ed.), The development of social cognition. Psychology Press

Distinguishing one's own voice from those of others: A function of private speech? (1997)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., & Russell, J. (1997). Distinguishing one's own voice from those of others: A function of private speech?. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 20, 651-665

Working memory in chess. (1996)
Journal Article
Robbins, T., Anderson, E., Barker, D., Bradley, A., Fernyhough, C., Henson, R., …Baddeley, A. (1996). Working memory in chess. Memory and Cognition, 24, 83-93

The dialogic mind: A dialogic approach to the higher mental functions. (1996)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (1996). The dialogic mind: A dialogic approach to the higher mental functions. New Ideas in Psychology, 14, 47-62