Cognitive models have suggested that @entity2167 occur when internal mental events, such as inner speech or auditory verbal imagery (AVI), are misattributed to an external source. This has been supported by numerous studies indicating that individuals who experience @entity1833 tend to perform in a biased manner on tasks that require them to distinguish self-generated from non-self-generated perceptions. However, these tasks have typically been of limited relevance to inner speech models of @entity1833 , because they have not manipulated the AVI that @entity1 used during the task. Here, a new paradigm was employed to investigate the interaction between imagery and perception, in which a healthy, non-clinical sample of @entity1 were instructed to use AVI whilst completing an auditory signal detection task. It was hypothesized that AVI-usage would cause @entity1 to perform in a biased manner, therefore falsely detecting more voices in bursts of noise. In Experiment 1, when cued to generate AVI, highly @entity1833 -prone @entity1 showed a lower response bias than when performing a standard signal detection task, being more willing to report the presence of a voice in the noise. @entity1 not prone to @entity1833 performed no differently between the two conditions. In Experiment 2, @entity1 were not specifically instructed to use AVI, but retrospectively reported how often they engaged in AVI during the task. @entity1833 -prone @entity1 who retrospectively reported using imagery showed a lower response bias than did @entity1 with lower proneness who also reported using AVI. Results are discussed in relation to prominent inner speech models of @entity1833 .

The effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in XXXX -prone individuals.

@entity1833 :: ('MESH:D006212', 'Disease') :: ['hallucination', 'Highly hallucination', 'hallucinations'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'Participants'] @entity2167 :: ('MESH:D006311', 'Disease') :: ['auditory hallucinations']
@entity1833 :: (MESH:D006212,Disease) :: ['hallucination']
