Frontiers in psychology
January 1, 2014
Brice Martin, Marc Wittmann, Nicolas Franck et al.
87 citations
Disturbances of the minimal self—the immediate sense of being a subject of experience—may be a core feature of schizophrenia, manifesting as an altered sense of presence or difficulty distinguishing self from non-self. These disturbances are not correlated with common cognitive impairments like working-memory or attention disorders. This paper reviews literature suggesting a link between such self-disturbances and alterations in time processing, including both implicit temporal integration windows and explicit duration perception. The authors argue that understanding the relationship between time and the minimal self, along with embodiment issues, requires further research focused on implicit time processing.
Frontiers in human neuroscience
January 1, 2018
Brice Martin, Nicolas Franck, Michel Cermolacce et al.
32 citations
Distortions in the automatic sense of time may be linked to disturbances in the minimal self in schizophrenia, but timing deficits are hard to measure objectively. This case report describes AF, a 22-year-old man with schizophrenia and no antipsychotic medication, who shows few symptoms and normal cognition but high levels of minimal self disorders. In a variable foreperiod task, AF preserved the ability to distinguish time intervals but had difficulty using the passage of time to anticipate a visual stimulus and struggled to adapt to changing time delays. The impairments were large enough to detect at the individual level. Results suggest that exploring timing deficits individually is feasible and may relate to self disorders.
Psychopathology
January 1, 2017
Tudi Gozé, Till Grohmann, Jean Naudin et al.
14 citations
Schizophrenia involves a radical incomprehensibility of patients' experience, yet clinicians often sense its presence through a 'praecox feeling.' This paper proposes that affectivity—the way emotions and feelings connect body, self, world, and others—can explain this paradox. Drawing on Marc Richir's phenomenology, the authors argue that affectivity has a twofold bodily constitution that grounds embodied affective resonance, enabling empathic understanding. This model links affectivity to minimal self-disturbance in schizophrenia and highlights its intersubjective dimension, offering a coherent theoretical framework for the clinician's paradoxical comprehension.
Consciousness and cognition
May 1, 2014
Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Clélia Quiles, Guillaume Fond et al.
A methodological framework for analyzing the relationship between cognitive processes and brain activity uses variables measured by neurofeedback (NF) with functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI NF). Two traditional approaches, the neuropsychological (NP) and psychophysiology (PP) approaches, treat cognitive or brain variables as dependent or independent. The article suggests that NF can be inspired by neurophenomenology, because fMRI NF lets participants simultaneously experience their own cognitive processes and observe effects on brain region activations. Implementing the elicitation interview method could improve fMRI NF by collecting participants' introspective reports on subjective experiences.