Hallucinations and Strong Priors

Recent data establish a role for strong prior beliefs in the genesis of hallucinations. These data are difficult to reconcile with aberrant inner-speech theories, in which 'weaker' predictions about the potential consequences of one's own inner speech drive an inference that speech is emanating from an agent external to oneself. In the predictive-coding view, this failure of self-prediction renders the consequences of one's inner speech...