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

心理化是将心理状态归因于其他主体的能力。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，网络心理化的机制尚不清楚。在这项研究中，我们探索了各种行为和神经测量在线心理化能力。我们发现，行为熵（表明决策的随机性）是人类竞争游戏中在线心智化的有效行为指标。参与者与一个人形机器人玩游戏；结果表明，注视机器人头部转动的参与者的熵明显高于注视机器人的参与者，尽管机器人与人类的明显相似性与行为熵无关。我们还发现了在线思维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.