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Wondrous Strange: The Neuropsychology of Abnormal Beliefs
Author(s) -
Young Andrew W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00123
Subject(s) - delusion , scope (computer science) , psychology , neuropsychiatry , neuropsychology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , cognition , psychiatry , computer science , philosophy , programming language
Detailed studies of people who have experienced the Capgras delusion (the delusion that certain other people, usually close relatives, have been replaced by impostors) have led to advances in constructing an account which can deal with the basic symptomatology, testing alternative possibilities, generating and testing non‐trivial predictions, and broadening the scope of the basic account to encompass other delusions. This paper outlines these developments. It uses them to explore implications for understanding the formation and maintenance of beliefs, and to discuss basic principles of what has come to be known as cognitive neuropsychiatry.