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Charles Fernyhough

Charles Fernyhough

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Psychology

D-Index
61
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17429
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3343
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357

Overview

Charles Fernyhough is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, notably Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in Fernyhough's research include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes
  • Hallucinations in medical conditions
  • Language, metaphor, and cognition

Fernyhough has published in a variety of academic venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Psychiatry Research
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Selected recent papers highlight Fernyhough's focus on language and cognition as well as psychiatric conditions:

  • "Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool" (2023), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations" (2020), published in Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Subjective Experience of Remembering" (2021), published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis" (2020), published in Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study" (2021), published in Psychological Science

Frequent collaborators of Fernyhough include:

  • Ben Alderson-Day
  • Guy Dodgson
  • Peter Moseley
  • Robert Dudley
  • Stephanie Common

Best Publications

  • Rethinking Maternal Sensitivity: Mothers’ Comments on Infants’ Mental Processes Predict Security of Attachment at 12 Months

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Emma Fradley;Michelle Tuckey

  • Maternal Mind–Mindedness and Attachment Security as Predictors of Theory of Mind Understanding

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Rachel Wainwright;Mani Das Gupta

  • Inner speech : development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology.

    Ben Alderson-Day;Charles Fernyhough

  • Security of Attachment as a Predictor of Symbolic and Mentalising Abilities: A Longitudinal Study

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;James Russell;David Clark-Carter

  • Pathways to understanding mind: construct validity and predictive validity of maternal mind-mindedness.

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Rachel Wainwright;David Clark-Carter

  • Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia and Nonschizophrenia Populations: A Review and Integrated Model of Cognitive Mechanisms

    Flavie Waters;Paul Allen;Andre Aleman;Charles Fernyhough

  • Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding

    Charles Fernyhough

  • Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care

    Louise C. Johns;Kristiina Kompus;Melissa Connell;Clara Humpston

  • Young children's trust in their mother's claims: longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris;Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough

  • The Characteristic Features of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Groups: State-of-the-Art Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Laroi;Iris E. Sommer;Jan Dirk Blom;Charles Fernyhough

  • Private speech on an executive task: relations with task difficulty and task performance

    Charles Fernyhough;Emma Fradley

  • Linguistic Acquisitional Style and Mentalising Development: The Role of Maternal Mind-mindedness

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough

  • Hallucinations: A Systematic Review of Points of Similarity and Difference Across Diagnostic Classes

    Flavie Waters;Charles Fernyhough

  • Social predictors of psychotic experiences : specificity and psychological mechanisms.

    Richard P. Bentall;Charles Fernyhough

  • The dialogic mind: A dialogic approach to the higher mental functions

    Charles Fernyhough

  • Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Larøi;Tanya Marie Luhrmann;Vaughan Bell;William A. Christian

  • Mind-Mindedness as a Multidimensional Construct: Appropriate and Nonattuned Mind-Related Comments Independently Predict Infant-Mother Attachment in a Socially Diverse Sample.

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Marc de Rosnay;Bronia Arnott

  • Alien voices and inner dialogue: towards a developmental account of auditory verbal hallucinations

    Charles Fernyhough

  • Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey

    Angela Woods;Nev Jones;Ben Alderson-Day;Felicity Callard

  • Mind-mindedness and theory of mind: Mediating roles of language and perspectival symbolic play

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Bronia Arnott;Susan R. Leekam

  • Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation

    Adam Winsler;Charles Fernyhough;Ignacio Montero

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Meins
Elizabeth Meins University of York
Simon McCarthy-Jones
Simon McCarthy-Jones Trinity College Dublin
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Susan R. Leekam
Susan R. Leekam Cardiff University
Flavie Waters
Flavie Waters University of Western Australia
Renaud Jardri
Renaud Jardri University of Lille
Jon S. Simons
Jon S. Simons University of Cambridge
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London

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