Ratcliffe, Matthew James orcid.org/0000-0003-4519-4833 and Broome, Matthew R. (2022) Beyond "Salience" and "Affordance":Understanding Anomalous Experiences of Significant Possibilities. In: Archer, Sophie, (ed.) Salience. Routledge , London
Abstract
Schizophrenia and psychosis are associated with wide-ranging phenomenological disturbances. These, it is often said, involve ‘aberrant salience’. Others have sought to account for the relevant phenomenology in terms of ‘affordance’. In this chapter, we identify a shortcoming that is common to both approaches. There are many distinctions to be drawn between different kinds and different aspects of salience, some or all of which might prove clinically relevant. Consequently, terms such as ‘salience dysregulation’ and ‘aberrant salience’ lack the required discriminatory power. They should serve only as a starting point for the task of understanding anomalous experience in psychiatric illness and relating it to neuroscience. We go on to argue that recent appeals to experiences of ‘affordance’ fall short in the same way. Better, we suggest, to acknowledge the many subtly but importantly different ways in which human experience is permeated by a sense of the possible than to mask this complexity and diversity by settling for concepts that are insufficiently discerning.
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Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2021 10:20 |
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