Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot

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perturbed activation (e.g., Weinberger & Berman, 1996). Because prefrontal
areas normally exert an inhibitory control on other areas involved in various
aspects of motor and sensorimotor processing, alteration of this control
in schizophrenic patients might result in aberrant representations of actions
and emotions. Referring to the diagram in Figure 6.1, one of the two agents
would become “schizophrenic” if, due to an alteration in the pattern of connectivity
of the corresponding networks, the degree of overlap between the
representations in the brain increased in such a way that the representations
would become indistinguishable from each other. The pattern of misattribution
in this agent would be a direct consequence of this alteration: for example,
decreased self attribution if frontal inhibition were too strong or
increased if it were too weak.
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