Preliminary Evidence of a Missing Self Bias in Face Perception for Individuals with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Failing to recognize one's mirror image can signal an abnormality in one's sense of self. In dissociative identity disorder (DID), individuals often report that their mirror image can feel unfamiliar or distorted. They also experience some of their own thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations as if they are nonautobiographical and sometimes as if instead, they belong to someone else. To assess these experiences, we designed a novel backwards masking paradigm in which participants were covertly shown their own face, masked by a stranger's face. Participants rated feelings of familiarity associated with the strangers' faces. 21 control participants without trauma-generated dissociation rated masks, which were covertly preceded by their own face, as more familiar compared to masks preceded b

SUBMITTER: Lebois LAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6397096 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature