How does the aberrant salience hypothesis of schizophrenia lead to symptoms people have when under the gang-stalking delusion. If you meet the same person several times a day, what is aberrantly salient about that?
I guess the question is how does aberrant salience explain the gangstalking phenomenon?
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Aberrant means “diverging from the normal”
and salience is the way something sticks in your memory because it was impactful
So “aberrant salience” means “things stick in this person’s memory in a way that they wouldn’t stick in the memory of a ‘normal’ person functioning normally”
It’s normal to meet the same people every day, but for the most part they don’t tend to become salient memories because it just wasn’t all that impactful unless that person made a specific impression on you. The person lives fairly near to you or takes the same bus but unless something happens there’s just not a good reason to focus on them or think about them too much. The hypothesis is that this isn’t how it works in the minds of people with the gangstalking delusion
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