What I think she thinks about my paralysed body: Social inferences about disability-related content in anosognosia for hemiplegia.

ABSTRACT: The neuropsychological disorder of anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) can offer unique insights into the neurocognitive processes of body consciousness and representation. Previous studies have found associations between selective social cognition deficits and anosognosia. In this study, we examined how such social cognition deficits may directly interact with representations of one's body as disabled in AHP. We used a modified set of previously validated Theory of Mind (ToM) stories to create disability-related content that was related to post-stroke paralysis and to investigate differences between right hemisphere damage patients with (n = 19) and without (n = 19) AHP. We expected AHP patients to perform worse than controls when trying to infer paralysis-related mental states in the paraly

SUBMITTER: Besharati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11923733 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature