Sense of agency: Examining awareness of the acting self

• Main Author: Sukhvinder Obhi (auth)
• Other Authors: Nicole David (auth), James W. Moore (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Disorders of agency; Consciousness; Volition; action; bayes; sense of agency
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The sense of agency is defined as the sense of oneself as the agent of one's own actions. This also allows oneself to feel distinct from others, and contributes to the subjective phenomenon of self-consciousness (Gallagher, 2000). Distinguishing oneself from others is arguably one of the most i...