TY - JOUR
T1 - Schizotypal personality traits and prediction of one's own movements in motor control
T2 - What causes an abnormal sense of agency?
AU - Asai, Tomohisa
AU - Sugimori, Eriko
AU - Tanno, Yoshihiko
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Background. Positive schizophrenic symptoms, especially passivity phenomena, including auditory hallucinations, may be caused by an abnormal sense of agency, which people with schizotypal personality traits also tend to exhibit. A sense of agency asserts that it is oneself who is causing or generating an action. It is possible that this abnormal sense of self-agency is attributable to the abnormal prediction of one's own movements in motor control. Method. We conducted an experiment using the "disappeared cursor" paradigm in which non-clinical, healthy participants were required to click on a target using an invisible mouse cursor. Prediction error was defined as the distance between the target and the click point. Results. The results showed that schizotypal personality traits, but not depressive or anxious traits, were correlated with deficits in predicting movements of the subjects' left hand. In particular, auditory hallucination proneness had the strongest relationship with movement prediction error. In this report, we also discuss the error tendency (overestimations or underestimations of one's own movements). Conclusions. This finding is in accordance with the idea that passivity phenomena or proneness may be caused by the abnormal prediction of one's own actions or movements.
AB - Background. Positive schizophrenic symptoms, especially passivity phenomena, including auditory hallucinations, may be caused by an abnormal sense of agency, which people with schizotypal personality traits also tend to exhibit. A sense of agency asserts that it is oneself who is causing or generating an action. It is possible that this abnormal sense of self-agency is attributable to the abnormal prediction of one's own movements in motor control. Method. We conducted an experiment using the "disappeared cursor" paradigm in which non-clinical, healthy participants were required to click on a target using an invisible mouse cursor. Prediction error was defined as the distance between the target and the click point. Results. The results showed that schizotypal personality traits, but not depressive or anxious traits, were correlated with deficits in predicting movements of the subjects' left hand. In particular, auditory hallucination proneness had the strongest relationship with movement prediction error. In this report, we also discuss the error tendency (overestimations or underestimations of one's own movements). Conclusions. This finding is in accordance with the idea that passivity phenomena or proneness may be caused by the abnormal prediction of one's own actions or movements.
KW - Auditory hallucination
KW - Forward model
KW - Motor control
KW - Prediction
KW - Schizophrenia
KW - Schizotypy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2008.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2008.04.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 18513994
AN - SCOPUS:55749096781
VL - 17
SP - 1131
EP - 1142
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
SN - 1053-8100
IS - 4
ER -