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 Science, 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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