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Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowldge

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Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency

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Different planes of disruption may result in a loss or breakdown of the sense of agency. They may pertain to the different levels of perceptual, attentional, and psychiatric disorders, and generally they have in common a loss of the sense of control and a disruption of binding between intentions and actions. In some cases, they imply a deficit in the sense of ownership, which may be subdivided into ownership for body-actions and for thought-action. In other cases, what is lost is the sense of agency itself, similarly divided into agency for action and agency for thoughts.

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Balconi, M. (2010). Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowldge. In: Michela, B. (eds) Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1587-6_7

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