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Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (163)

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.

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.