ArticleSchizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)2022
Impaired sense of agency and associated confidence in psychosis.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Agency in schizophrenia and autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Mediators of psychotic-like experiences in community youths after trauma: positive sense of agency and post-traumatic stress symptoms.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- The neurofucntional abnormalities of temporal gyrus underly impaired sensory attenuation in schizophrenia during action-outcome contingent paradigm.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Disrupted sense of agency-related ownership and disownership increase in the Rubber Hand Illusion.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hierarchical analysis of the sense of agency in schizophrenia: motor control, control detection, and self-attribution.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Explicit and implicit sense of agency in depersonalisation experiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The bodily self from psychosis to psychedelics.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Multisensory decisions from self to world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Impaired perception of temporal contiguity between action and effect is associated with disorders of agency in schizophrenia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Perceptual training modifies temporal sensitivity and a sense of agency.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Sense of body ownership and body agency in schizophrenia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Investigating the sense of agency and its relation to subclinical traits using a novel task.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Agency Deficits in a Human Genetic Model of Schizophrenia: Insights From 22q11DS Patients.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Sense of Agency (SoA), our sensation of control over our actions, is a fundamental mechanism for delineating the Self from the environment and others. SoA arises from implicit processing of sensorimotor signals as well as explicit higher-level judgments. Psychosis patients suffer from difficulties in the sense of control over their actions and accurate demarcation of the Self. Moreover, it is unclear if they have metacognitive insight into their aberrant abilities. In this pre-registered study, we examined SoA and its associated confidence judgments using an embodied virtual reality paradigm in psychosis patients and controls. Our results show that psychosis patients not only have a severely reduced ability for discriminating their actions but they also do not show proper metacognitive insight into this deficit. Furthermore, an exploratory analysis revealed that the SoA capacities allow for high levels of accuracy in clinical classification of psychosis. These results indicate that SoA and its metacognition are core aspects of the psychotic state and provide possible venues for understanding the underlying mechanisms of psychosis, that may be leveraged for novel clinical purposes.
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