Evidence for a Primary Prior Deficit as a Mechanism of Auditory Hallucinations.

The article explores the potential mechanism of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia, focusing on the overreliance on prior expectations as a primary deficit. The study by Duhamel et al. investigates biases toward prior expectations in healthy individuals and hallucination-prone individuals, revealing a correlation between deficits in the representation of prior variance and hallucination proneness.