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Reminder : Seminar Tomorrow Philip R. Corlett, Ribicoff Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental Health Center. Tuesday 16th of November 2010 Macquarie University, C5C498 - Palermo Room, 4:00PM until 5:30PM. Beliefs in the brain: Using fMRI to explore delusions Abstract: Delusions, the false and often tenacious beliefs that attend mental illness are a challenge to cognitive neuroscience. I will discuss an attempt to meet that challenge by conceptualizing delusions as incorrect causal inferences. We have explored the causal inference process using functional neuroimaging. Using pharmacological tools to model psychosis as well as studying patients with delusions it has been possible to identify a key pathological process; prediction error. I will go on to discuss how this process has been implicated in the perceptual dysfunction associated with psychosis; perceiving is believing; as well as in the maintenance of delusions in the face of incontrovertible contradictory evidence. A list of MACCS members to email can be found at http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/ -- Professor John Sutton Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Email: [email protected] http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/ Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 ASCS09: Proceedings of 9th conference, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09 Memory Studies (Sage journal): http://mss.sagepub.com/ _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list: http://sydphil.info 945 subscribers now served. To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://sydphil.info
