ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015
An exploratory fMRI study into inferences of self-agency.
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- Agency, Ownership and the Potential Space.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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- Cerebral responses to self-initiated action during social interactions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Activity of the inferior parietal cortex is modulated by visual feedback delay in the robot hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The Brain in (Willed) Action: A Meta-Analytical Comparison of Imaging Studies on Motor Intentionality and Sense of Agency.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Functional networks of motor inhibition in conversion disorder patients and feigning subjects.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2016Article
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Abstract
Building on the recent findings that the experience of self-agency over actions and corresponding outcomes can also rely on cognitive inferential processes, rather than motor prediction processes, this study aims to investigate the brain areas involved in agency inference processing in a setting where action and outcome are independent. Twenty-three right-handed subjects were scanned using functional MRI while performing an agency inference task, in which action outcomes matched or mismatched goals. The experience of self-agency was associated with increased activation in the inferior parietal lobule as well as the bilateral (medial) superior frontal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex. These findings provide new and exciting insights in the processing of inferential self-agency, providing a first look at the neural correlates of self-agency processing independent of motor-prediction processes.
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