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Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency

From Consciousness to Action

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  1. Balconi Michela

    1. Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Cognition, Consciousness and Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology

      • Michela Balconi
      Pages 3-22

    3. Affordances and the Sense of Joint Agency

      • Jérôme Dokic
      Pages 23-43

  3. Brain, Agency and Self-agency: Neuropsychological Contributions to the Development of the Sense of Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Neuropsychology of Senses of Agency: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions

      • Michela Balconi
      Pages 47-67

    3. Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence and Future Driections

      • Nicole David
      Pages 69-80

    4. The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents

      • Marta Bassi, Raffaela D. G. Sartori, Antonella Delle Fave
      Pages 81-105

    5. Agency and Inter-agency, Action and Joint Action: Theoretical and Neuropsychological Evidence

      • Davide Crivelli, Michela Balconi
      Pages 107-122

  4. Clinical Aspects Associated with Disruption of the Sense of Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowldge

      • Michela Balconi
      Pages 125-143

    3. Disturbances of the Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia

      • Matthis Synofzik, Martin Voss
      Pages 145-155

    4. Looking for Outcomes: The Experience of Control and Sense of Agency in Obsessive-compulsive Behaviors

      • Sanaâ Belayachi, Martial Van der Linden
      Pages 157-171

    5. Body and Self-awareness: Functional and Dysfunctional Mechanisms

      • Michela Balconi, Adriana Bortolotti
      Pages 173-189

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-192
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Balconi Michela

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency

  • Book Subtitle: From Consciousness to Action

  • Editors: Balconi Michela

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1587-6

  • Publisher: Springer Milano

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Milan 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-1586-9Published: 30 June 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5574-2Published: 11 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-1587-6Published: 08 September 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 192

  • Topics: Neuropsychology, Neurosciences, Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry

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