Source monitoring and proneness to auditory-verbal hallucinations: A signal detection analysis

Abstract

Introduction. It has been suggested that a bias to misattribute self-generated thoughts to a nonself source underlies the experience of auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH). We tested this hypothesis with healthy participants prone or not prone to AVH. Method. Participants (N=133) were presented with 96 words for subsequent recognition (half positively, half negatively valenced). For self-generated trials, participants generated a sentence containing the word. For other-generated trials, participants heard a prerecorded sentence containing the word. At test, studied words were re-presented visually, intermixed with 96 matched lures. Participants indicated the study status (old or new) and so..