Delusions and theories of belief |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;2. Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;3. School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom;1. Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;2. Centre for Contextual Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium;3. Independent researcher, Reeuwijk, The Netherlands;4. University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium;5. Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP-Rutgers University, NJ, USA;1. Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia;2. Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF, UK;3. Philosophy Department, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Cognitive neuropsychiatry is a branch of cognitive psychology that seeks to explain neuropsychiatric symptoms in terms of disruptions or damage to normal cognitive processes. A key objective of this approach is to use insights derived from the study of pathological symptoms to inform accounts of premorbid cognitive systems. Delusions, in particular, can be considered to represent dysfunction of the cognitive processes underlying belief formation, so studying delusions may provide unique insights into nonpathological belief. While this approach has provided compelling accounts for a range of delusions in terms of putative cognitive dysfunctions, it is less clear that it has achieved progress in its reciprocal goal of informing understanding of belief more generally. In this review, we trace the origins of the cognitive neuropsychiatric approach and consider the reasons for the lack of progress. We propose a tentative framework to overcome these challenges and suggest directions for future research. |
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| Keywords: | Belief Cognition Cognitive neuropsychiatry Cognitive neuropsychology Computational psychiatry Delusion Modularity Predictive coding Psychosis Review |
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