Roy Salomon

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Roy Salomon is a cognitive neuroscientist whose work sits at the fascinating intersection of multisensory integration, bodily self-consciousness, and psychopathology. His research has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how the brain constructs a sense of bodily ownership and selfhood by probing the mechanisms through which motor, tactile, proprioceptive, and visual signals are combined into a coherent self-representation. Salomon is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking 2014 study on the neurological and robot-controlled induction of an "apparition" — a felt presence of another person — which garnered 148 citations and attracted widespread attention for its striking demonstration of how sensorimotor conflicts can generate profound self-disturbances. His complementary work on voluntary self-touch (80 citations) and visuo-tactile integration during self-generated action further illuminated the role of predictive sensorimotor processing in body ownership. A distinctive thread in his research connects these experimental paradigms to clinical phenomena: his investigations into early psychosis and thought insertion reveal how breakdowns in sensorimotor prediction may underlie hallucinations and passivity symptoms. More recently, Salomon has extended his framework to human-robot interaction, exploring trust through the lens of active inference. His body of work offers powerful tools for both basic science and translational psychiatry.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Neurological and Robot-Controlled Induction of an Apparition

   148 citations · 2014
2. 2
   Voluntary self-touch increases body ownership

   80 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Trust as Extended Control: Human-Machine Interactions as Active Inference

   46 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Sensorimotor Induction of Auditory Misattribution in Early Psychosis

   44 citations · 2019
5. 5
   Visuo‐tactile integration and body ownership during self‐generated action

   43 citations · 2013
6. 6
   A novel manipulation method of human body ownership using an fMRI-compatible master–slave system

   27 citations · 2014
7. 7
   An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

   22 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

   20 citations · 2020
9. 9
   Modulation of Bodily Self-Consciousness by Self and External Touch

   7 citations · 2021
10. 10
    T241. Neural Mechanisms of Presence Hallucination and Passivity Experience Induced by Sensorimotor Conflicts in Healthy Subjects: A Robotics-fMRI Study

    2 citations · 2018

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