Abnormalities in the experience of self-agency in schizophrenia: A replication study

作者：Renes Robert A^*; van der Weiden Anouk; Prikken Merel; Kahn Rene S; Aarts Henk; van Haren Neeltje E M

来源：Schizophrenia Research, 2015, 164(1-3): 210-213.

DOI：10.1016/j.schres.2015.03.015

• Self-agency
• Schizophrenia
• Implicit
• Priming
• Replication

People usually experience agency over their actions and subsequent outcomes. These agency inferences over action-outcomes are essential to social interaction, and occur when an actual outcome corresponds with either a specific goal (goal-based), and matches with action-outcome information that is subtly pre-activated in the situation at hand (prime-based). Recent research showed that schizophrenia patients exhibit goal-based inferences, but not prime-based inferences. Intrigued by these findings, and underscoring their potential role in explaining poor social functioning, we replicate patients' deficit in prime-based agency inferences. Additionally, we exclude the account that patients are unable to visually process and attend to primed information.

• 出版日期2015-5