by Hearing the Voice | Jul 29, 2016 | Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, HtV Research
In this podcast, which was recorded at our workshop on Hallucination and Prediction at St Chad’s College, Durham University on 7-8th July 2016, Dr Ben Alderson-Day gives an introduction to the predictive processing framework for understanding hearing voices and...
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 15, 2016 | Announcements, HtV Research
We are delighted to announce that Professor Patricia Waugh, co-investigator on Hearing the Voice, and our collaborator Professor Sophie Scott (University College London) have been elected as new British Academy Fellows, in recognition of their outstanding contribution...
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 7, 2016 | HtV Research
Have you ever had spiritual communication experiences? We want to know more about what these experiences are like. We’re currently running a study on ‘clairaudient’ experiences, where people hear spiritual voices talking to them, or feel like they are being...
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 7, 2016 | HtV Research
Our postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy, Dr Sam Wilkinson, writes: In this post, I’ll introduce a forthcoming Special Issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, co-edited by myself and psychologist Ben Alderson-Day, on “Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis”....
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 1, 2016 | HtV Research
Hearing the Voice co-investigator Dr Ben Alderson-Day writes: In July we will be running our final MRI sessions for our study of voice-hearing in people without need for care (sometimes known as non-clinical voice-hearers). For the study we have had loads of great...
by Hearing the Voice | Jun 30, 2016 | Cultural & Media Events, HtV Research
When you ask people to reflect on their own experience, many people say that it is full of words; they talk to themselves almost constantly. But what is this ‘voice in the head’? What is it for, how does it vary from person to person, and how can we best study it?...