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Editorial
. 2022 Feb 8;47(1):E48-E54.
doi: 10.1503/jpn.210231. Print 2022 Jan-Feb.

The Bayesian brain and cooperative communication in schizophrenia

Lena Palaniyappan  1 , Ganesan Venkatasubramanian  2
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Editorial

The Bayesian brain and cooperative communication in schizophrenia

Lena Palaniyappan et al. J Psychiatry Neurosci. .

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: L. Palaniyappan reports personal fees from Janssen Canada, Otsuka Canada, SPMM Course Limited, UK, and the Canadian Psychiatric Association; book royalties from Oxford University Press; investigator-initiated educational grants from Sunovion, Janssen Canada and Otsuka Canada; and travel support from Boehringer Ingelheim and Magstim Limited, outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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A gradient of a precision modulation deficit affecting the highest levels of priors in schizophrenia is hypothesized to result in speech disturbances in social settings. When demands arise, patients cannot afford increased precision to their higher-order “adaptive” priors. When engaging a second person, this imprecision presents as a failure of commitment to a discourse plan (or narrative) with low confidence on the message choice that increases the likelihood of frequent shifts in conversational goal, messages and speech structure.
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