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Auditory‐verbal hallucinations and the phonological loop: A cognitive neuropsychological study
Author(s) -
David Anthony S.,
Lucas Philip A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1993.tb01077.x
Subject(s) - psychology , baddeley's model of working memory , cognition , cognitive psychology , neuropsychology , verbal memory , context (archaeology) , short term memory , working memory , perspective (graphical) , developmental psychology , audiology , neuroscience , medicine , paleontology , artificial intelligence , biology , computer science
A patient with continuous auditory‐verbal hallucinations was studied, in comparison with two cases with a past history of similar hallucinations, from a cognitive neuropsychological perspective. This attempts to place hallucinations in the context of a normal cognitive process which has become disordered. The process in question is the phonological loop, equivalent to inner speech, derived from a model of short‐term or working memory. A series of short‐term memory tests, assumed to rely on the adequate functioning of the phonological loop, was administered, the results of which broadly conformed to a normal pattern of performance. It is concluded that verbal hallucinations cannot be regarded as involving the phonological loop directly. Other points in the short‐term memory/language system at which verbal hallucinations could arise are discussed, as are suggestions for further research of this kind.