Intentional inhibition but not source memory is related to hallucination-proneness and intrusive thoughts in a university sample.

ABSTRACT: Proneness to unusual perceptual states - such as auditory or visual hallucinations - has been proposed to exist on a continuum in the general population, but whether there is a cognitive basis for such a continuum remains unclear. Intentional cognitive inhibition (the ability to wilfully control thoughts and memories) is one mechanism that has been linked to auditory hallucination susceptibility, but most evidence to date has been drawn from clinical samples only. Moreover, such a link has yet to be demonstrated over and above relations to other cognitive skills (source monitoring) and cognitive states (intrusive thoughts) that often correlate with both inhibition and hallucinations. The present study deployed two tests of intentional inhibition ability - the Inhibition of Currently Irrele

SUBMITTER: Alderson-Day B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459394 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature