Sense of agency in schizophrenia: A reconciliation of conflicting findings through a theory-driven literature review.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
; 163: 105781, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
The sense of agency is the experience of being the author of self-generated actions and their outcomes. Both clinical manifestations and experimental evidence suggest that the agency experience and the mechanisms underlying agency attribution may be dysfunctional in schizophrenia. Yet, studies investigating the sense of agency in these patients show seemingly conflicting results:
some indicated under-attribution of self-agency (coherently with certain positive symptoms), while others suggested over-attribution of self-agency. In this review, we assess whether recent theoretical frameworks can reconcile these divergent results. We examine whether the identification of agency abnormalities in schizophrenia might depend on the measure of self-agency considered (depending on the specific task requirements) and the available agency-related cues. We conclude that all these aspects are relevant to predict and characterize the type of agency misattribution that schizophrenia patients might show. We argue that one particular model, based on the predictive coding theory, can reconcile the interpretation of the multifarious phenomenology of agency manifestations in schizophrenia, paving the way for testing agency disorders in novel ways.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Esquizofrenia
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Psicología del Esquizofrénico
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
Año:
2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos