Thinking about hallucinations: why philosophy matters.

Hallucinations research is increasingly incorporating philosophy or the work of philosophically trained individuals. We present three different ways in which this is successfully implemented to the enhancement of knowledge and understanding of hallucinations and related phenomena. We review contributions from phenomenology, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science and psychiatry.

Inner experience in the scanner: can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?

To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at providing proof of principle that introspection using one method, descriptive experience sampling (DES), can be reliably integrated with fMRI. A participant was trained in the DES method, followed by nine sessions of sampling within an MRI scanner.