Pavlovian conditioning–induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors

in #life7 years ago

Basically giving more weight to expectations and beliefs than sensory information = hallucinations. Go figure! But now there's neuroscience!

Paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/596

Sciencemag coverage: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/how-your-mind-protects-you-against-hallucinations

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is that your voice? I like the science, I dig :) You do science, I do art... could be a fun friendship! FOLLOWING :)

Nope just some stuff from sciencemag. I write on my own site but that's about it right now. Followed you back :P

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