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ArticleScience advances2020

How the effects of actions become our own.

L Zapparoli, S Seghezzi, E Zirone, G Guidali, M Tettamanti, G Banfi, N Bolognini, E Paulesu

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07290920 (Sensorimotor Integration in Patients With Tourette Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07290920 completednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Sensorimotor Integration in Patients With Tourette Syndrome: an Observational Study.

TypeobservationalSponsorI.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'AmbrogioRan2025 to 2025Enrolled60ConditionsTourette Disorder, Sensory Gating
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

L ZapparoliPsychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. eraldo.paulesu@unimib.it laura.zapparoli@unimib.it.ORCID 0000-0002-9210-942X
S SeghezziPsychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6908-5984
E ZironeIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0935-8645
G GuidaliPsychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3741-0404
M TettamantiCIMeC-Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3039-1500
G BanfiIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
N BologniniPsychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
E PaulesuPsychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. eraldo.paulesu@unimib.it laura.zapparoli@unimib.it.ORCID 0000-0002-9224-754X
Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi · ITUniversity of Milano-Bicocca · ITIRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano · ITUniversity of Trento · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Every day, we do things that cause effects in the outside world with little doubt about who caused what. To some, this sense of agency derives from a post hoc reconstruction of a likely causal relationship between an event and our preceding movements; others propose that the sense of agency originates from prospective comparisons of motor programs and their effects. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that the sense of agency is associated with a brain network including the pre-supplementary motor area (SMA) and dorsal parietal cortex. Transcranial magnetic stimulation affected the sense of agency only when delivered over the pre-SMA and specifically when time-locked to action planning, rather than when the physical consequences of the actions appeared. These findings make a prospective theory of the sense of agency more likely.

Identifiers

PMID32937445
PMCPMC7458439
OpenAlexW3038511496

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