Fig. 2.

A possible competing account of delusion formation (to be compared with that depicted in Fig. 1). In this account, general neurocognitive deficits (i.e., ones that can be observed even in the absence of conflict), rather than conflict processing impairments, are causally primary in the pathways leading to delusions. In this figure, the term “neurocognitive impairments” refers specifically to deficits in the machinery underlying analytic reasoning (e.g., impairments in working memory).