Ben Alderson-Day

Biographic Data

ID1659632
NAMEBen Alderson-Day
GIVEN NAMESBen
FAMILY NAMEAlderson-Day
SIGNATUREBEN ALDERSON-DAY
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
ORCID0000-0003-0546-8043
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS49
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Two kinds of presence (at least)

    Ben Alderson-DayARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2023

    Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.Notes1 The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.2 Charles Dickens described something similar in relation to his own characters (Garratt, Citation2014).3 Or indeed, what would Jesus do?Additional informationFundingThis researc…

  • Voices in Psychosis

    Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day et al.EDITORBOOKVoices in Psychosis2022

  • ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’

    Open AccessJohn Foxwell, Ben Alderson-Day et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2020

    Writers often report vivid experiences of hearing characters talking to them, talking back to them, and exhibiting independence and autonomy. However, systematic empirical studies of this phenomenon are almost non-existent, and as a result little is known about its cause, extent, or phenomenology. Here we present the results of a survey of professional writers (n = 181) run in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Particip…

  • Hearing spiritually significant voices

    Open AccessChristopher C H Cook, Adam J Powell et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point. The context, content and identity of these voices, all of which have typically not been seen as important in the assessment of auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs) within psychiatry, are key to under…

  • Musical hallucinations, musical imagery, and earworms

    Open AccessPeter Moseley, Ben Alderson-Day et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2018

    Musical hallucinations (MH) account for a significant proportion of auditory hallucinations, but there is a relative lack of research into their phenomenology. In contrast, much research has focused on other forms of internally generated musical experience, such as earworms (involuntary and repetitive inner music), showing that they can vary in perceived control, repetitiveness, and in their effect on mood. We conducted a large online survey (N =…

  • The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (Visq-R)

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Kaja Mitrenga et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2018

    Inner speech is a common experience for many but hard to measure empirically. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ) has been used to link everyday phenomenology of inner speech - such as inner dialogue - to various psychopathological traits. However, positive and supportive aspects of inner speech have not always been captured. This study presents a revised version of the scale - the VISQ-R - based on factor analyses in two large sam…

  • Uncharted features and dynamics of reading

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Marco Bernini et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2017

    Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we present the results of a 2014 survey conducted in collaboration with a national UK newspaper and an international book festival. Participants (n=1566) completed measures of reading imagery, inner speech, and hallu…

  • Inner speech

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Charles FernyhoughARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2015Cited by: 48References: 7

    Inner speech-also known as covert speech or verbal thinking-has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body of knowledge on its phenomenology, development, and function, approaches to the scientific study of inner speech have remained diffuse and largely unintegrated. This review examines prominent theoretical approaches to inner speech and methodological…

  • More than one voice

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Charles FernyhoughARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

  • Shot through with voices

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Simon McCarthy‐Jones et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

    Inner speech is a commonly experienced but poorly understood phenomenon. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ; McCarthy-Jones & Fernyhough, 2011) assesses four characteristics of inner speech: dialogicality, evaluative/motivational content, condensation, and the presence of other people. Prior findings have linked anxiety and proneness to auditory hallucinations (AH) to these types of inner speech. This study extends that work by exa…