New study published in "Consciousness and Cognition"

We're happy to let you know that our new paper "Effects of expectations and sensory unreliability on voice detection – A preregistered study" is out in Consciousness and Cognition! The paper resulted in a collaboration between researchers of MCLL JU (Piotr Szymanek, Marek Homan, Mateusz Hohol) and Michiel van Elk of Leiden University.

Highlights

• Voice hearing is often found in healthy individuals and across religious traditions.
• We investigated a mechanism of voice hearing grounded in predictive processing.
• We found that response bias in detection of voices is driven by expectations.
• The effect of expectations is stronger when sensory data is unreliable.
• This predictive mechanism can underlie non-clinical voice hearing experiences.

Find the paper in the open access here.

Szymanek, P., Homan, M., van Elk, M., & Hohol, M. (2024). Effects of expectations and sensory unreliability on voice detection – A preregistered study. Consciousness and Cognition, 123, 103718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103718