Équipe BEƎꟼ - Séminaire invité Pavo Orepic

We are pleased to welcome Pavo Orepic, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who will present his work on Tuesday, June 17:

WHEN ? Tuesday 17/06 at 13.30, CURE's meeting room

WHO ? Pavo Orepic

WHAT ? Voices and Robots: From self-voice misperceptions to robotically-induced hallucinations 
Why does our own voice sound unnatural to us and what does it have to do with hallucinations? Inspired by the prominent theory suggesting that auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH) – colloquially “hearing voices” – arise as misattributions of self-generated speech, my PhD thesis revolved around self-voice perception and the experimental induction of self-other voice misattribution in healthy participants, mimicking the AVH phenomenology. In this talk, I will present key findings from my thesis. First, I will outline some behavioral, neural, and clinical factors underlying self-other voice discrimination. Second, I will illustrate how we induced AVH-like sensations in healthy, non-hallucinating individuals using a robotic procedure. Together, I will argue that self-voice is much more than just an auditory stimulus – it is a multisensory construct whose (mis)perception could potentially serve as a clinical biomarker for deficits in self-consciousness.