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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="other" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2712-7672</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2713-2919</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Eco-Vector</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">15678</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17816/CP15678</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>RESEARCH</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Unknown</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Proprioception and Cognitive Polarization in Autism: The Bipolar Tensile Model</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Проприоцепция и когнитивная поляризация при аутизме: модель биполярного напряжения</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2333-6714</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Sanna</surname><given-names>Marco</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Санна</surname><given-names>Марко</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D, Department of History and Human Sciences</p></bio><email>marcosanna@yahoo.it</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Сассари, Сассари, Италия</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="preprint" iso-8601-date="2026-03-04" publication-format="electronic"><day>04</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-04-23"><day>23</day><month>04</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2026-02-09"><day>09</day><month>02</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; , Sanna M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; , Санна М.</copyright-statement><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sanna M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Санна М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/15678">https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/15678</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article introduces the Bipolar Tensile Model, a neurosemiotic and integrative framework for understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The model reinterprets ASD not as a collection of deficits, but as the outcome of an unresolved tension between two complementary hemispheric cognitive modalities: symbolic-sequential and corporeal-perceptual. In typical development, these modalities are dynamically harmonized through an extended interhemispheric network, comprising the Default Mode Network, major cerebral commissures (corpus callosum, anterior and hippocampal), and the cerebellum.In ASD, the instability of this mediating system disrupts proprioceptive integration and generates polarized cognitive configurations, such as operational rigidity, sensory disorganization, and repetitive behaviors. Proprioception is understood not as a peripheral sensory channel, but as a semiotic regulator of interhemispheric coherence and embodied self-awareness.Drawing on a narrative synthesis of clinical, neuropsychological, and neurophysiological literature — and supported by representative clinical cases — the model highlights how interhemispheric disconnection and proprioceptive instability interact to shape atypical developmental patterns. It proposes compensatory adaptation, including local hyperconnectivity and symbolic overcompensation, as central mechanisms in the formation of ASD profiles.By integrating insights from semiotics, systems neuroscience, and embodied cognition, the Bipolar Tensile Model provides new perspectives on diagnosis, clinical interpretation, and individualized therapeutic approaches, with particular attention to the early identification of proprioceptive dysfunction and the design of integrative rehabilitation protocols.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В настоящей статье представлена альтернативная теоретическая гипотеза, объясняющая расстройства аутистического спектра и описывающая модель биполярного напряжения — нейросемиотическую и интегративную концепцию, которая определяет расстройства аутистического спектра не как совокупность дефицитов, а как результат неразрешенного напряжения между двумя взаимодополняющими когнитивными модальностями полушарий головного мозга: символически-последовательной и телесно-перцептивной. При нормотипичном развитии эти модальности динамически гармонизируются посредством расширенной межполушарной сети, включающей сеть пассивного режима работы головного мозга (Default Mode Network, DMN), основные мозговые комиссуры (мозолистое тело, передняя комиссура и гиппокампальная комиссура) и мозжечок.Нестабильность этой опосредующей системы при расстройствах аутистического спектра нарушает проприоцептивную интеграцию и порождает поляризованные когнитивные конфигурации, такие как поведенческая ригидность, сенсорная дезорганизация и повторяющееся поведение. Таким образом, проприоцепция позиционируется не как периферический сенсорный канал, а как семиотический регулятор межполушарной связи и телесного самосознания. Разработанная на основе нарративного синтеза клинической, нейропсихологической и нейрофизиологической литературы и подкрепленная показательными клиническими случаями модель демонстрирует, как межполушарное разъединение и проприоцептивная нестабильность объединяются в формировании нетипичных функциональных траекторий. В качестве центральных механизмов формирования профилей расстройств аутистического спектра предлагается компенсаторная адаптация, включая локальную гиперконнективность и символическую сверхкомпенсацию.Объединяя идеи семиотики, системной нейробиологии и воплощенного познания, модель биполярного напряжения открывает новые перспективы для диагностики, интерпретации и индивидуальных терапевтических стратегий, уделяя особое внимание раннему выявлению проприоцептивных дисфункций и разработке протоколов интегративной реабилитации.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>proprioception</kwd><kwd>interhemispheric connectivity</kwd><kwd>autism spectrum disorder</kwd><kwd>embodied cognition</kwd><kwd>neurosemiotics</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>проприоцепция</kwd><kwd>межполушарные связи</kwd><kwd>расстройство аутистического спектра</kwd><kwd>воплощенное познание</kwd><kwd>нейросемиотика</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Lotman YM. 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