Pierre Progin

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Pierre Progin is a leading researcher in the neurophenomenology of psychosis, specializing in the sensorimotor mechanisms underlying self-monitoring failures and passivity symptoms. His work bridges robotics, cognitive science, and clinical psychiatry to experimentally induce and measure altered states of consciousness, such as thought insertion and presence hallucinations. Progin’s most-cited paper (44 citations) demonstrates how sensorimotor conflict can produce auditory misattribution in early psychosis, revealing predictive processing dysfunctions central to bodily self-monitoring. His follow-up work (20 citations) introduces a novel robotics-based method to investigate thought insertion, showing how controlled sensorimotor conflicts can generate the subjective experience of alien thoughts. These contributions provide a mechanistic understanding of how the brain distinguishes self-generated from external sensory events, with direct implications for early detection and intervention in psychotic disorders. Progin’s innovative use of robotic systems to probe the boundaries of selfhood has positioned him at the forefront of experimental psychopathology, offering new tools to explore the embodied roots of consciousness and agency in health and disease.