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Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (149)

When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (2011)
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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.

Self-knowledge in childhood: Relations with children’s imaginary companions and understanding of mind (2011)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Did Emanuel Swedenborg have near-death experiences? Envisioning a developmental account of NDEs. (2009)
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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..

Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills. (2009)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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..