ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2014
From action intentions to action effects: how does the sense of agency come about?
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.
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- Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Disrupted sense of agency-related ownership and disownership increase in the Rubber Hand Illusion.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Loss and Return of Ticklishness in Functional Neurological Disorder.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Obedience induces agentic shifts by increasing the perceived time between own action and results.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Explicit and implicit sense of agency in depersonalisation experiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A step-by-step method for cultural annotation by LLMs.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2024Article
- Multisensory decisions from self to world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Mistakes strengthen the temporal binding effect in the context of goal-directed actions.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- The Neurobiology of Pathological Fatigue: New Models, New Questions.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2022Article
- What am I doing? It depends: agency and action identification.Psychological research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling an external event through one's own action. On one influential view, agency depends on how predictable the consequences of one's action are, getting stronger as the match between predicted and actual effect of an action gets closer. Thus, sense of agency arises when external events that follow our action are consistent with predictions of action effects made by the motor system while we perform or simply intend to perform an action. According to this view, agency is inferred retrospectively, after an action has been performed and its consequences are known. In contrast, little is known about whether and how internal processes involved in the selection of actions may influence subjective sense of control, in advance of the action itself, and irrespective of effect predictability. In this article, we review several classes of behavioral and neuroimaging data suggesting that earlier processes, linked to fluency of action selection, prospectively contribute to sense of agency. These findings have important implications for better understanding human volition and abnormalities of action experience.
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