Sense of agency

Sense of agency

The sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling that one is initiating and controlling one's own actions into the world. [Jeannerod, M. (2003). The mechanism of self-recognition in human. Behavioural Brain Research, 142, 1-15.]

Agency and Psychopathology

Investigation of the sense of agency is important to explain positive symptoms of schizophrenia, like thought insertion and delusions of control. [Farrer, C., Franck, N., Frith, C.D., Decety, J., Damato, T., & Jeannerod, M. (2004). Neural correlates of action attribution in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 131, 31-44.]

elected works

* Gallagher, S. (2006). "How the Body Shapes the Mind." Oxford University Press.
* Jeannerod, M. (1997). "The cognitive neuroscience of action." Wiley-Blackwell.

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