The exploration of behavioral and neural measurements for autism therapy using robot

心理化是将精神状态归因于其他代理的能力。缺乏在实际社会环境中所需要的心智化，可能会导致严重的社会障碍，如自闭症。然而，在线心理化的机制仍然不清楚。在这项研究中，我们探讨了各种行为和神经测量表明在线心智化能力。我们发现，行为熵（这表明决策的随机性）是一个有效的行为指标在线心智在人与人的竞争游戏。参与者与一个人形机器人玩游戏;结果表明，参与者的熵显着更高的目光跟随机器人的头部转动比没有，虽然明确的人类相似的机器人没有相关的行为熵。我们还发现了在线心智化能力背后的神经关联。

Mentalizing is the ability to attribute mental states to other agents. The lack of mentalizing, which is required in actual social contexts, may cause serious social disorders such as autism. However, the mechanism of online mentalizing is still unclear. In this study, we explored various behavioral and neural measurements indicating online mentalizing ability. We found that behavioral entropy (which indicates the randomness of decision making) was an efficient behavioral index for online mentalizing in a human-human competitive game. Participants played the game with a humanoid robot; the results indicated that the entropy was significantly higher in participants whose gaze followed the robot's head turn than not, although the explicit human-likeness of the robot did not correlate with behavioral entropy. We also found the neural correlates behind the online mentalizing ability.