2023
Evidence for Reduced Sensory Precision and Increased Reliance on Priors in Hallucination-Prone Individuals in a General Population Sample
Benrimoh D, Fisher V, Seabury R, Sibarium E, Mourgues C, Chen D, Powers A. Evidence for Reduced Sensory Precision and Increased Reliance on Priors in Hallucination-Prone Individuals in a General Population Sample. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2023, 50: 349-362. PMID: 37830405, PMCID: PMC10919780, DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSensory evidenceSensory precisionHallucinatory experiencesHallucination severityCH rateHallucination-prone individualsIncoming sensory evidencePrior weightingLinguistic versionsGaussian filter modelNonlinguistic stimuliPerceptual inferencePerceptual statesPerceptual beliefsResponse confidenceAuditory informationTask behaviorGeneral population sampleOnline sampleAuditory hallucinationsGeneral population participantsStimuliPast resultsParticipantsTaskBarriers and solutions to the adoption of translational tools for computational psychiatry
Benrimoh D, Fisher V, Mourgues C, Sheldon A, Smith R, Powers A. Barriers and solutions to the adoption of translational tools for computational psychiatry. Molecular Psychiatry 2023, 28: 2189-2196. PMID: 37280282, PMCID: PMC10611570, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-023-02114-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMainstream research directionIntegration of tasksComputational psychiatryComputational tasksComputational expertiseGame platformFormal modelDevelopment of tasksTaskLimited ecological validityResearch directionsEcological validityComputational methodsTest-retest reliabilityMore positive impactsInformation processingLarge-scale research projectProcessingHuman brainResearch project
2022
Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility
Kafadar E, Fisher VL, Quagan B, Hammer A, Jaeger H, Mourgues C, Thomas R, Chen L, Imtiaz A, Sibarium E, Negreira AM, Sarisik E, Polisetty V, Benrimoh D, Sheldon AD, Lim C, Mathys C, Powers AR. Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility. Biological Psychiatry 2022, 92: 772-780. PMID: 35843743, PMCID: PMC10575690, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.05.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCH rateIncoming sensory evidenceSensory evidencePerceptual statesTask performanceComputational psychiatrySubset of participantsPrior expectationsHallucination severityBehavioral dataSymptom severityPast experienceStable measureHallucinationsPsychotic symptomsHallucination frequencyTaskSymptom expressionBayesian modelState markerHallucinatorsNonhallucinatorsOverweightingPerceptionSymptom risk
2020
Modeling perception and behavior in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: Support for the predictive processing framework
Kafadar E, Mittal VA, Strauss GP, Chapman HC, Ellman LM, Bansal S, Gold JM, Alderson-Day B, Evans S, Moffatt J, Silverstein SM, Walker EF, Woods SW, Corlett PR, Powers AR. Modeling perception and behavior in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: Support for the predictive processing framework. Schizophrenia Research 2020, 226: 167-175. PMID: 32593735, PMCID: PMC7774587, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.04.017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical high riskCHR participantsDegraded speech stimuliPredictive processing frameworkUtility of interventionsSample of participantsPerceptual inferenceSensory evidencePsychotic spectrum disordersSpeech stimuliSpeech taskComputational underpinningsBehavioral tasksEfficacy of interventionsSpectrum disorderTarget tonesParticipants' performanceComputational modelingHigh riskPoor recognitionLatent factorsSuch tasksPrior beliefsTaskAppropriate risk stratification
2017
Pavlovian conditioning–induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors
Powers AR, Mathys C, Corlett PR. Pavlovian conditioning–induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors. Science 2017, 357: 596-600. PMID: 28798131, PMCID: PMC5802347, DOI: 10.1126/science.aan3458.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Generalization of multisensory perceptual learning
Powers III AR, Hillock-Dunn A, Wallace MT. Generalization of multisensory perceptual learning. Scientific Reports 2016, 6: 23374. PMID: 27000988, PMCID: PMC4802214, DOI: 10.1038/srep23374.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSound-induced flash illusionMultisensory perceptual learningPerceptual learningSimultaneity judgment taskVisual temporal acuityMeasures of perceptionsAbility of trainingPerceptual trainingFlash illusionMultisensory tasksAudiovisual stimuliMultisensory trainingMultisensory worldJudgment taskGeneralization effectsTemporal acuityInfluence perceptionsDifferent sensesControl conditionStimuliTraining resultsTrainingPerceptionTaskLearning