Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency: From Consciousness to Action 2010 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Description based on print version record.; EBSCO complete collection. Table of Contents: Section I. Cognition, Consciousness and Agency -- 1. The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology / Michela Balconi -- 1.1. To Be an Agent: What Is the Sense of Agency? -- 1.2. Action and Awareness of Action -- 1.2.1. Does Awareness of Action Differ from the Sense of Agency? -- 1.3. The Key Determinant Mechanisms for the Sense of Agency -- 1.4. A Critical Approach to Intentions and Intentional Binding Phenomenon -- 1.4.1. Awareness, Consciousness, and Agency: Unconscious Perception and Unconscious Intentions -- 1.4.2. Self-consciousness and the Illusion of Agency -- 1.4.3. Consciousness of Self and Consciousness of the Goal -- 1.5. The Sense of Initiation -- 1.5.1. The Limited Sense of Initiation: Libet's Contribution -- 1.6. The Sense of Control -- 1.7. The Sense of Agency for Self and for Others: The Perceptual Basis of Empathy -- References -- 2. Affordances and the Sense of Joint Agency / Jerome Dokic -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Social Perception and Mind-reading -- 2.3. The Concept of Affordances -- 2.4. Instrumental vs Deontic Affordances -- 2.5. Canonical Neurons as Reflecting Instrumental Affordances -- 2.6. Egocentric vs Allocentric Perception of Affordances -- 2.7. Mirror Neurons and Action-dependent Affordances -- 2.8. Interpersonal Affordances -- 2.9. Two Models of Joint Action -- 2.10. Conclusions -- References -- Section II. Brain, Agency and Self-agency: Neuropsychological Contributions to the Development of the Sense of Agency -- 3. The Neuropsychology of Senses of Agency: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions / Michela Balconi -- 3.1. Different Types of the Sense of Agency -- 3.2. Feeling and Judgment in the Sense of Agency -- 3.3. Empirical Paradigms of the Judgment of Agency -- 3.3.1. The Awareness of Action: The Contribution of Event-related Potentials -- 3.3.2. Time Perception and the Sense of Agency -- 3.3.3. Visual Feedback and Awareness of Action -- 3.3.4. Somatosensory Information for Agency -- 3.3.5. Sense Integration -- 3.3.6. Experimental Paradigms for the Feeling of Agency -- 3.4. Minimal Self and Narrative Self -- 3.4.1. Minimal Self: Self-agency as I -- 3.4.2. Self Ascription -- 3.4.3. Narrative Self: The Sense of Continuity -- References -- 4. Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence and Future Directions / Nicole David -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. A Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence -- 4.2.1. Posterior Parietal Cortex and Inferior Parietal Lobule -- 4.2.2. The Cerebellum -- 4.2.3. The Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus -- 4.2.4. The Insula -- 4.2.5. The Supplementary Motor Area -- 4.2.6. The Prefrontal Cortex -- 4.3. Future Directions -- 4.4. Conclusions -- References -- 5. The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents / Marta Bassi, Raffaela D. G. Sartori, Antonella Delle Fave -- 5.1. Agency and Its Role in Human Behavior and Experience -- 5.2. Agency and Experience -- 5.2.1. Defining and Measuring Experience -- 5.2.2. Agency in Daily Life: A Crucial Component of Optimal Experience -- 5.3. Empirical Evidence: A Study with Italian Adolescents -- 5.3.1. Aims and Methods -- 5.3.2. Results -- 5.4. Agency and Daily Experience: A Promising Research Domain -- References -- 6. Agency and Inter-agency, Action and Joint Action: Theoretical and Neuropsychological Evidence / Davide Crivelli, Michela Balconi -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. An Introduction to Agency -- 6.3. The Beginning: Intentions and Collective Intentions -- 6.3.1. From I to We -- 6.3.2. We in Action -- 6.4. Doing Things Together: Joint Action and the Sense of Agency -- 6.5. Over the Self-other Differentiation: Circular Interactions and Joint Agency -- 6.5.1. The Intersubjective Origins of Joint Agency: A Developmental Perspective -- 6.6. Inter-acting Selves, Social Agency, and Neural Correlates -- 6.6.1. The Original Distinction of Our-selves and Other-selves -- 6.6.2. Self-other Differentiation, Agency and Sociality: Hypotheses and Neuropsychological Evidence -- 6.7. Conclusions -- References -- Section III. Clinical Aspects Associated with Disruption of the Sense of Agency -- 7. Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowledge / Michela Balconi -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Disruption of Agency in the Perceptual Field and in Proprioception -- 7.2.1. Agency and Body: Predictivity Function of the Body for Self-representation -- 7.2.2. Perceptual Illusions of Body -- 7.2.3. Blindsight and Numbsense -- 7.2.4. A Tentative Conclusion Regarding Perceptual Level Impairment -- 7.3. Attentive Deficits and the Sense of Agency -- 7.3.1. Visual Neglect Syndrome -- 7.3.2. Somatosensory Neglect -- 7.4. The Fallibility of Self-attribution of Agency in Neuropsychiatry -- 7.4.1. Frontotemporal Dementia and the Delusion of Control in Frontal Deficits -- 7.4.2. Agency and Schizophrenia -- 7.4.3. Concluding Remarks on Schizophrenia -- 7.4.4. Autism: Mentalizing vs Agency Disruption -- 7.4.5. Dissociated States: Obsessive-compulsive Disorder -- 7.4.6. Lines of Research on the Disruption of Agency: ERPs and Personality -- References -- 8. Disturbances of the Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia / Matthis Synofzik, Martin Voss -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Comparator Model and Its Explanatory Limitations -- 8.3. Feeling of Agency vs Judgement of Agency -- 8.4. Optimal Cue Integration as the Basis of the Sense of Agency -- 8.5. Altered Cue Integration as the Basis of Delusions of Influence -- 8.5.1. Intentional Binding: Impaired Predictions and Excessive Linkage of External Sensory Events -- 8.5.2. Perception of Hand Movements: Imprecise Predictions Prompting an Over-reliance on External Action Cues -- 8.6. Conclusions -- References -- 9. Looking for Outcomes: The Experience of Control and Sense of Agency in Obsessive-compulsive Behaviors / Sanaa Belayachi, Martial Van der Linden -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. The Clinical Features and Phenomenology of OCD -- 9.3. Sense of Agency in OCD: Empirical Data -- 9.4. Summary and Discussion -- 9.5. Conclusions -- References -- 10. Body and Self-awareness: Functional and Dysfunctional Mechanisms / Michela Balconi, Adriana Bortolotti -- 10.1. The Sense of Agency and the Sense of Ownership as Components of Self-consciousness -- 10.2. The Sense of Body Ownership vs the Sense of Agency -- 10.3. The Sense of My Body as Mine: A Threefold Perspective -- 10.4. A Spatial Hypothesis of Body Representation -- 10.5. Neural Substrates of the Sense of Ownership -- 10.6. Disruption of the Sense of Ownership: Conscious and Non-conscious Body Perception -- 10.6.1. The Rubber Hand Illusion: Evidence of Disownership Phenomena -- 10.6.2. Other Body Impairments: Neuropsychological Disorders -- References -- Subject Index.