Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (163)

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)
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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.

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.

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.

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.