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From the Fact to the Sense of Agency

Tsakiris, Manos; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini; (2013) From the Fact to the Sense of Agency. In: Clark, A and Kiverstein, J and Vierkant, T, (eds.) Decomposing the Will. (pp. 1-18). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

This chapter reviews the empirical literature and contrast explicit and implicit tasks investigating the experience of agency with the aim of identifying the functional and neural signatures of the sense of agency. From the design of nonecological situations where there is ambiguity over the authorship of an action to the implementation of control conditions of passive movements that make little sense in our everyday waking life, the reviewed studies have tried to identify the key elements of what constitutes the sense of agency in humans. The exact interplay between conscious intentions and behavior, and the balance between predictive and postdictive processes remain controversial. However, the empirical investigation of the fact of agency, that is, the study of situations where people unambiguously produce voluntary actions, suggests that self-generated behavior changes the perception of one’s body and the external world by integrating temporal and spatial representations of movements and their effects on the world.

Type: Book chapter
Title: From the Fact to the Sense of Agency
ISBN: 0199746990
ISBN-13: 9780199746996
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746996.003.0006
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746996.0...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: sense of agency, passive movement, authorship of action, predictive processes, postdictive processes, temporal representations, spatial representations
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120305
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