How Perception, Association and Belief Drive Hallucinations (IMAGE)

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How Perception, Association and Belief Drive Hallucinations

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A lateral view of brain regions that are sensitive to tones of fluctuating intensity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 11, 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.R. Powers at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues was titled, "Pavlovian conditioning-induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors."

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Albert Powers, Chris Mathys & Phil Corlett

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