Abstract
Reality monitoring in a hypothetically hallucination-prone population.The aim of this work was to analyze the performance of hypothetically hallucination-prone subjects in source discrimination tasks. Two experiments were carried out with external source (pictorial and verbal) discrimination tasks. In Experiment 1, material and encoding task (naming, function, and mental imagery) were manipulated. In Experiment 2, the variables were material, encoding task and delay of memory test. Results showed that hypothetically hallucination-prone subjects encode external information and make use of information about prototypical features of memory traces in a similar way to non-prone subjects. These findings, discussed within Johnson and Raye's reality monitoring model, may serve to define the conditions under which normal and abnormal source discrimination failures occur.
