Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies
suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention …

Delusional beliefs are seen in association with a number of neuropathological conditions,
including schizophrenia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. A key distinction exists …

Over the past decades, delusions have become the subject of growing and productive
research spanning clinical and cognitive neurosciences. Despite this, the nature of belief …

Abstract See McKay and Furl (doi: 10.1093/aww323) for a scientific commentary on this
article. Focal brain injury can sometimes lead to bizarre symptoms, such as the delusion that …

Depersonalization is characterised by a profound disruption of self-awareness mainly
characterised by feelings of disembodiment and subjective emotional numbing. It has been …

Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions
are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …

Face perception is a function with significant complexity, reflected in cognitive models that
propose a hierarchy of parallel and serial processing stages. Current neuroimaging data …

Work in the field of cognitive neuropsychiatry over the past 20 years has made it plain that
various forms of delusional belief are scientifically understandable in the sense that …

Delusional beliefs have sometimes been considered as rational inferences from abnormal
experiences. We explore this idea in more detail, making the following points. First, the …

Numerous delusions have been studied which are highly specific and which can present in
isolation in people whose beliefs are otherwise entirely unremarkable—“monothematic …