Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency

From Consciousness to Action
2010
ISBN: 978-88-470-5574-2
Verlag: Springer Milan

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Not nothing without you but not the same Erich Fried (1979) How do I know that I am the person who is moving? The neuroscience of action has identified specific cognitive processes that allow the organism to refer the cause or origin of an action to its agent. This sense of agency has been defined as the sense that I am the one who is causing or generating an action or a certain thought in my stream of consciousness. As such, one can distinguish actions that are self-generated from those generated by others, giving rise to the experience of a self-other disti- tion in the domain of action. A tentative list of the features distinguishing the concept of agency includes awareness of a goal, of an intention to act, and of initiation of action; awareness of movements; a sense of activity, of mental effort, and of control; and the concept of authorship. However, it remains unclear how these various aspects of action and agency are related, to what extent they are dissociable, and whether some are more basic than others. Their sources remain to be specified and their relationship to action specification and action control mechanism is as yet unknown.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balconi, Michela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cognition, Consciousness and Agency.- The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology.- Affordances and the Sense of Joint Agency.- Brain, Agency and Self-agency: Neuropsychological Contributions to the Development of the Sense of Agency.- The Neuropsychology of Senses of Agency: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions.- Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence and Future Driections.- The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents.- Agency and Inter-agency, Action and Joint Action: Theoretical and Neuropsychological Evidence.- Clinical Aspects Associated with Disruption of the Sense of Agency.- Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowldge.- Disturbances of the Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia.- Looking for Outcomes: The Experience of Control and Sense of Agency in Obsessive-compulsive Behaviors.- Body and Self-awareness: Functional and Dysfunctional Mechanisms.