Sense of agency in the human brain

P Haggard - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
In adult life, people normally know what they are doing. This experience of controlling one's
own actions and, through them, the course of events in the outside world is called'sense of …

What is the sense of agency and why does it matter?

JW Moore - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sense of agency refers to the feeling of control over actions and their consequences. In this
article I summarize what we currently know about sense of agency; looking at how it is …

Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination

N Dijkstra, SM Fleming - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Humans are voracious imaginers, with internal simulations supporting memory, planning
and decision-making. Because the neural mechanisms supporting imagery overlap with …

The senses of agency and ownership: a review

N Braun, S Debener, N Spychala, E Bongartz… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Usually, we do not question that we possess a body and act upon the world. This pre-
reflective awareness of being a bodily and agentive self can, however, be disrupted by …

The sense of agency in perception, behaviour and human–machine interactions

W Wen, H Imamizu - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
The sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling of controlling one's own actions, and
through them, external events. The sense of agency is a byproduct of human movements …

The proprioceptive senses: their roles in signaling body shape, body position and movement, and muscle force

U Proske, SC Gandevia - Physiological reviews, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
This is a review of the proprioceptive senses generated as a result of our own actions. They
include the senses of position and movement of our limbs and trunk, the sense of effort, the …

The perceptual prediction paradox

C Press, P Kok, D Yon - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
From the noisy information bombarding our senses, our brains must construct percepts that
are veridical–reflecting the true state of the world–and informative–conveying what we did …

The computational anatomy of psychosis

RA Adams, KE Stephan, HR Brown, CD Frith… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
This paper considers psychotic symptoms in terms of false inferences or beliefs. It is based
on the notion that the brain is an inference machine that actively constructs hypotheses to …

Motor imagery involves predicting the sensory consequences of the imagined movement

K Kilteni, BJ Andersson, C Houborg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Research on motor imagery has identified many similarities between imagined and
executed actions at the behavioral, physiological and neural levels, thus supporting their …

The free-energy self: a predictive coding account of self-recognition

MAJ Apps, M Tsakiris - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Recognising and representing one's self as distinct from others is a fundamental component
of self-awareness. However, current theories of self-recognition are not embedded within …