Self Representation
Jan 17, 2019
To make sense of the world our brains and minds are constantly monitoring events that we cause in the environment and tracking the location of our body in space. These aspects of self awareness are crucial for succesful goal directed actions, complex behaviours and social interactions. In this line of research we are developing new measures of self representation and behavioural tools for quantifying changes in these senses.
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Visual body-size adaptation and estimation of tactile distance
Estimating the size of bodies is crucial for interactions with physical and social environments. Body-size perception is malleable and …
Regine Zopf, Veronika Kosourkhina, Kevin R. Brooks, Vince Polito, Ian D. Stephen
Digital media impacts multiple aspects of self-representation: An investigation of flow, agency, presence, character identification, and time perception
Research in cognitive science is rapidly increasing our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that give rise to our sense of being …
Vince Polito, Michael Hitchens
Revisiting the link between body and agency: Visual movement congruency enhances intentional binding but is not body-specific
Embodiment and agency are key aspects of how we perceive ourselves that have typically been associated with independent mechanisms. …
Regine Zopf, Vince Polito, James Moore
A quasi-randomized feasibility pilot study of specific treatments to improve emotion recognition and mental-state reasoning impairments in schizophrenia
BackgroundImpaired ability to make inferences about what another person might think or feel (i.e., social cognition impairment) is …
Pamela Marsh, Vince Polito, Subba Singh, Max Coltheart, Robyn Langdon, Anthony Harris
Non-hierarchical influence of visual form, touch and position cues on embodiment, agency and presence in virtual reality
The concept of self-representation is commonly decomposed into three component constructs (sense of embodiment, sense of agency, and …
Stephen C. Pritchard, Regine Zopf, Vince Polito, David Michael Kaplan, Mark A. Williams
Sense of agency: Theory, methods, and application
Sense of agency is an area of growing research interest with important implications for our understanding of consciousness; motor …
Vince Polito, Flavie Waters, Doris McIlwain
Measuring agency change across the domain of hypnosis
Building on Hilgard’s (1965) classic work, the domain of hypnosis has been conceptualized by Barnier, Dienes, and Mitchell (2008) …
Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Erik Z. Woody, Michael H. Connors
Developing the Sense of Agency Rating Scale (SOARS): An empirical measure of agency disruption in hypnosis
Two experiments report on the construction of the Sense of Agency Rating Scale (SOARS), a new measure for quantifying alterations to …
Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Erik Z. Woody
An open clinical trial assessing a novel training program for social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia
Objective: Social cognition is profoundly impaired in patients with schizophrenia. This study describes `Mental-State Reasoning …
Pamela Marsh, Robyn Langdon, Jonathan McGuire, Anthony Harris, Vince Polito, Max Coltheart
SoCog: Manual for mental-state reasoning and emotion recognition training. Sydney: Macquarie University
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Pamela Marsh, Jonathan McGuire, Vince Polito, B. Lee, Robyn Langdon, Thushara Anandakumar, Jilly Atwell, Gemma Luckett, Anna Surev, Anthony Harris, Max Coltheart
Willed action in schizophrenia
This study examined stimulus-driven and willed action in schizophrenic patients and healthy controls using an easy finger-tap task and …
Robyn Langdon, Jen McLaren, Vince Polito, Max Coltheart, Philip B. Ward