Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Varied research findings have been taken to support the claim that humans' representation
of the self is" special," that is, that it emerges from systems that are physically and …

Our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity-our'self'-is a characteristic
doubtless unique to humans. Where does this feeling come from? How does the …

I review three answers to the question: How can phenomenology contribute to the
experimental cognitive neurosciences? The first approach, neurophenomenology, employs …

In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea
that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious …

How it happens that one can recognise oneself as the source of one's own actions? This
process of self-recognition is in fact far from trivial: although it operates covertly and …

Feedforward mechanisms are important for movement control. They may also contribute to
the identification of self-produced actions by attenuating the sensory consequences of self …

This paper argues that Frith's (1992) account of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia in
terms of a disruption of metarepresentational self-monitoring is inadequate in several …

The Bayesian brain hypothesis provides an attractive unifying framework for perception,
cognition, and action. We argue that the framework can also usefully integrate interoception …

Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions
are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …