A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions.
The lancet. Psychiatry April 1, 2024 Jessica Niamh Harding, Noham Wolpe, Stefan Peter Brugger et al. 43 citations
A modified version of predictive coding, called hybrid predictive coding, provides a better model of how healthy people make inferences about external reality than standard predictive coding does. This more comprehensive model offers a richer understanding of psychosis, particularly the phenomenology of delusions, compared with standard predictive coding accounts. The authors describe the hybrid predictive coding model and suggest it could serve as a powerful new framework for computational psychiatric approaches to psychosis. They also propose directions for future work to formalize this perspective.