Neurocognitive bases of self-monitoring of inner speech in hallucination prone individuals

Abstract

Verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia patients might be seen as internal verbal productions mistaken for perceptions as a result of over-salient inner speech and/or defective self-monitoring processes. Similar cognitive mechanisms might underpin verbal hallucination proneness in the general population. We investigated, in a non-clinical sample, the cerebral activity associated with verbal hallucinatory predisposition during false recognition of familiar words —assumed to stem from poor monitoring of inner speech—vs. uncommon words. Thirty-seven healthy participants underwent a verbal recognition task. High- and low-frequency words were presented outside the scanner. In the scanner, the participants were then required to recognize the target words among equivalent distractors. Results showed that verbal hallucination proneness was associated with higher rates of false recognition of high-frequency words. It was further associated with activation of language and decisional brain areas during false recognitions of low-, but not high-, frequency words, and with activation of a recollective brain area during correct recognitions of low-, but not high-, frequency words. The increased tendency to report familiar words as targets, along with a lack of activation of the language, recollective, and decisional brain areas necessary for their judgement, suggests failure in the self-monitoring of inner speech in verbal hallucination-prone individuals.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32042-4
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
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Publication ISSN: 2045-2322
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2024 07:46
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2023 11:47
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Published Date: 2023-04-17
Published Online Date: 2023-04-17
Accepted Date: 2023-03-20
Authors: Stephan-Otto, Christian
Núñez, Christian
Lombardini, Federica
Cambra-Martí, Maria Rosa
Ochoa, Susana
Senior, Carl (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-2155-4139)
Brébion, Gildas

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