Olivia Mak

Olivia Mak

Former PhD Student

University of Manchester, UK

Olivia completed her PhD research with the LISN Lab. Her doctoral work investigated how predictive mechanisms involved in speaking and hearing might contribute to auditory-verbal hallucination-like experiences in nonclinical populations. She used behavioural and computational methods, including conditioned auditory signal-detection tasks, to test how experimentally altered expectations affected false-positive reports of sounds in noise.

Interests
  • Auditory verbal hallucinations
  • Psychosis