Active inference provides a simple and neurobiologically plausible account of how action
and perception are coupled in producing (Bayes) optimal behaviour. This can be seen most …

Sensory processing of action effects has been shown to differ from that of externally
triggered stimuli, with respect both to the perceived timing of their occurrence (intentional …

Drawing on recent findings in the cognitive and neurosciences, this article discusses how
people manage to predict each other's actions, which is fundamental for joint action. We …

The sense of agency (SoA) refers to perceived causality of the self, ie the feeling of causing
something to happen. The SoA has been probed using a variety of explicit and implicit …

The classical, disembodied approach to music cognition conceptualizes action and
perception as separate, peripheral processes. In contrast, embodied accounts of music …

Voluntary actions are thought to be selected with respect to their intended goal. Converging
data suggests that medial frontal cortex plays a crucial role in linking actions to their …

The human ability to anticipate the consequences that result from action is an essential
building block for cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. A dominant view is that this …

The systematic association of an action that a person performs with its sensory effects is
thought to attenuate that person's perception of the effect of the action. However, whether …

The immediate experience of self-agency, that is, the experience of generating and
controlling our actions, is thought to be a key aspect of selfhood. It has been suggested that …

The sense of agency is the sense that one is causing an action. The inferential account of
the sense of agency proposes that we experience the sense of agency when we infer that …