There is an increasing amount of empirical work investigating the sense of agency, ie the
registration that we are the initiators of our own actions. Many studies try to relate the sense …

Delusional beliefs are seen in association with a number of neuropathological conditions,
including schizophrenia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. A key distinction exists …

Although conspiracy theories are endorsed by about half the population and occasionally
turn out to be true, they are more typically false beliefs that, by definition, have a paranoid …

Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of'existential
feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current …

From an evolutionary standpoint, a default presumption is that true beliefs are adaptive and
misbeliefs maladaptive. But if humans are biologically engineered to appraise the world …

Over the past decades, delusions have become the subject of growing and productive
research spanning clinical and cognitive neurosciences. Despite this, the nature of belief …

The experience of being the initiator of one's own actions seems to be infallible at first
glance. Misattributions of agency of one's actions in certain neurological or psychiatric …

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience
in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary …

The neurocognitive structure of the acting self has recently been widely studied, yet is still
perplexing and remains an often confounded issue in cognitive neuroscience …

Over the last 20years the comparator model for delusions of control has received
considerable support in terms of empirical studies. However, the original version clearly …