An online neural substrate for sense of agency.

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"Sense of agency" refers to the feeling of controlling an external event through one's own action. On one influential view, sense of agency is inferred after an action, by "retrospectively" comparing actual effects of actions against their intended effects. In contrast, a "prospective" component of agency, generated during action selection, and in advance of knowing the actual effect, has received less attention. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate prospective c...

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Authors: Chambon, V; Wenke, D; Fleming, S; Prinz, W; Haggard, P

• Journal: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1031-1037
• Publication date: 2013-05-01
• DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs059
• EISSN: 1460-2199
• ISSN: 1047-3211
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Personal Autonomy; Intention; Executive Function; Humans; Parietal Lobe; Brain Mapping; Self Efficacy; Learning; Nerve Net; Adult; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Prefrontal Cortex