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The Limits of Agency in Walking Humans. Neuropsychologia . 2010 Feb 6; Authors: Kannape OA, Schwabe L, Tadi T, Blanke O An important principle of human ethics is that individuals are not responsible for actions performed when unconscious. Recent research found that the generation of an action and the building of a conscious experience of that action (agency) are distinct processes and crucial mechanisms for self-consciousness. Yet, previous agency studies have focussed on actions of a finger or hand. Here, we investigate how agents consciously monitor actions of the entire body in...

Sense of agency primes manual motor responses. Perception. 2009;38(1):69-78 Authors: Longo MR, Haggard P Perceiving the body influences how we perceive and respond to stimuli in the world. We investigated the respective effects of different components of bodily representation--the senses of ownership and agency--on responses to simple visual stimuli. Participants viewed a video image...