1. Me or not me – An optimal integration of agency cues?
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Synofzik, Matthis, Vosgerau, Gottfried, and Lindner, Axel
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AGENT (Philosophy) , *BAYESIAN analysis , *SELF-consciousness (Sensitivity) , *SIGNAL processing , *DATA analysis , *INFORMATION measurement - Abstract
Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated that the sense of agency is not only determined by efference-copy-based internal predictions and internal comparator mechanisms, but by a large variety of different internal and external cues. The study by Moore and colleagues [Moore, J. W., Wegner, D. M., & Haggard, P. (2009). Modulating the sense of agency with external cues. Conscious and Cognition] aimed to provide further evidence for this view by demonstrating that external agency cues might outweigh or even substitute efferent signals to install a basic registration of self-agency. Although the study contains some critical points that, so we argue, are central to a proper interpretation of the data, it hints at a new perspective on agency: optimal cue integration seems to be the key to a robust sense of agency. We here argue that this framework could allow integrating the findings of Moore and colleagues and other recent agency studies into a comprehensive picture of the sense of agency and its pathological disruptions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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