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The Sense of Agency

Patrick Haggard and Baruch Eitam

Abstract

This book focuses on the scientific study of the human sense of agency. It discusses the causes and consequences of the subjective experience of being in control of one’s actions, and, through them, of events in the outside world. The book brings together some of the world’s leading researchers on the topic. It aims to provide the first structured survey of this nascent but rapidly growing field.

Keywords: sense of agency, psychological agency, bodily self, sense of self, consciousness, action-perception interactions

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780190267278
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190267278.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Patrick Haggard, editor
Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology, University College London

Baruch Eitam, editor
Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Introduction

Part I Volition

1 Time to Act

Elisabeth Pacherie

2 Deconstructing Voluntary Action

Lara Krisst, Carlos Montemayor, and Ezequiel Morsella

3 Action Control by If-Then Planning

Torsten Martiny-Huenger, Sarah E. Martiny, and Peter M. Gollwitzer

4 Neural Correlates of Intention

Roee Gilron, Shiri Simon, and Roy Mukamel

5 Explicit and Implicit Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions

Icek Ajzen and Nilanjana Dasgupta

6 The Neural Basis Underlying the Experience of Control in the Human Brain

Lauren A. Leotti, Catherine Cho, and Mauricio R. Delgado

7 Goals and the Sense of Agency

Tali Kleiman

Part II Determining Authorship

8 Inference Processes Underlying the Human Experience of Agency over Operant Actions

Myrthel Dogge and Henk Aarts

9 Agency and Outcome Prediction

Antje Gentsch and Simone Schütz-Bosbach

10 The Relations Between Agency and Body Ownership

Manos Tsakiris

11 The Innate Experience of Self-Agency

Philippe Rochat

12 Motivation from Control

Noam Karsh and Baruch Eitam

Part III Beyond Authorship

13 Comparators and Weightings

Matthis Synofzik

14 Action Control and the Sense of Agency

Bernhard Hommel

15 Control and Truth Working Together

E. Tory Higgins

Part IV Disturbances

16 Sense of Agency and Its Disruption

Paul Fletcher and Aikaterini Fotopoulou

17 Action Generation, Intention, and Agency in Motor and Body Awareness Deficits

Anna Berti, Francesca Garbarini, and Lorenzo Pia

18 Disorders of Volition from Neurological Disease

James B. Rowe and Noham Wolpe

End Matter

Index