Why people see things that are not there: A novel Perception and Attention Deficit model for recurrent complex visual hallucinations

A novel Perception and Attention Deficit (PAD) model for RCVH is proposed, suggesting that a combination of impaired attentional binding and poor sensory activation of a correct proto-object, in conjunction with a relatively intact scene representation, allows the intrusion of a hallucinatory proto- object into a scene perception.