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标题：Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states
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作者：Andrea Serino ; Polona Pozeg ; Fosco Bernasconi 等
期刊名称：iScience
印刷版ISSN：2589-0042
出版年度：2021
卷号：24
期号：1
页码：1-29
DOI：10.1016/j.isci.2020.101955
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：SummaryThought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one's mind, are not one's own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder. We report a robotics-based method able to investigate the behavioral and subjective mechanisms of TI in healthy participants. We used a robotic device to alter body perception by providing online sensorimotor stimulation, while participants performed cognitive tasks implying source monitoring of mental states attributed to either oneself or another person. Across several experiments, conflicting sensorimotor stimulation reduced the distinction between self- and other-generated thoughts and was, moreover, associated with the experimentally generated feeling of being in the presence of an alien agent and subjective aspects of TI. Introducing a new robotics-based approach that enables the experimental study of the brain mechanisms of TI, these results link TI to predictable self-other shifts in source monitoring and specific sensorimotor processes.Graphical AbstractDisplay OmittedHighlights•Thought insertion (TI) is an enigmatic and clinically relevant symptom in psychiatry•We report a new robotics-based approach to study TI experimentally•Sensorimotor conflicts induce feeling of a presence (FoP) in source monitoring tasks•TI depends on source monitoring during sensorimotor processing and FoPPsychology; Research Methodology Social Sciences; Robotics