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Data comprising 1,391 participants were pooled from 5 clinical (210 patients), and 10 non-clinical (1,181 participants) studies. Moderate-to-large effects were found between HEs and response bias across aggregate (\n                    <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.56 [95% CI: \u22120.84, \u22120.28,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0.001]), clinical (\n                    <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.88 [95% CI: \u22121.58, \u22120.17,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0.026]), and nonclinical (\n                    <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.43 [95% CI: \u22120.74, \u22120.11,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0.013]) subgroup models. Perceptual sensitivity was reduced in nonclinical (\n                    <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.17 [95% CI: \u22120.28, \u22120.07,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0.004]), but not clinical (\n                    <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a00.37 [95% CI: \u22120.00, 0.75,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0=\u00a0.050]), hallucinating samples. HEs are consistently associated with a liberal response bias across populations. HEs in nonclinical samples were linked to reduced perceptual sensitivity although this was not supported in clinical groups, potentially due to limited data. Findings highlight methodological gaps in AV-SDT research, including variability in design and hallucination assessment, underscoring the need for standardized approaches to improve generalizability across studies.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0033291726105339","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,10]],"date-time":"2026-08-10T05:59:14Z","timestamp":1786341554000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Hallucinations and auditory-verbal signal detection studies: A meta-analytic review"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"56","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4861-0695","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ruth","family":"Medcalf-Bell","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049e6bc10","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Northumbria University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9284-2509","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peter","family":"Moseley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049e6bc10","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Northumbria University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7266-0786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emma","family":"Barkus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049e6bc10","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Northumbria University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0033291726105339_r63","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ijnp\/pyab093"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0191-8869(85)90151-5"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclinepi.2018.05.021"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/t48377-000"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/t13160-000"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0956797614541991"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r46","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2015.09.015"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r49","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"179","DOI":"10.1017\/S0033291708003814","article-title":"A systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum: Evidence for a psychosis proneness\u2013persistence\u2013impairment model of psychotic disorder","volume":"39","author":"Os","year":"2009","journal-title":"Psychological Medicine"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jbtep.2020.101635"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0956797620985832"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r43","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/21677026211059802"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r64","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0059202"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r55","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.1601-23.2023"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2015-010247"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r50","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s13643-016-0384-4"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r73","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/sim.1186"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r52","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1126\/science.aan3458"},{"key":"S0033291726105339_r7","unstructured":"Bell, A. , Toh, W. 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