The sense of embodiment refers to the sensations of being inside, having, and controlling a
body. In virtual reality, it is possible to substitute a person's body with a virtual body, referred …

The human ability to anticipate the consequences that result from action is an essential
building block for cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. A dominant view is that this …

Sensory attenuation of self-produced, compared to physically identical but externally
produced events is a classical finding in research on perception in action. The most …

The sense of agency, ie, the feeling of control over one's own actions and their
consequences in the environment, is a crucial part of action taking. In experimental studies …

The relation between sense of body ownership and sense of agency is still highly debated.
Here we investigated in a large sample of healthy participants the associations between …

Distributing complex actions across agents is commonplace in human society. The objective
efficiency of joint actions comes with critical challenges for the sense of agency of individual …

Whether and how body ownership (“this body is mine”) contributes to human conscious
experience of voluntary action is still unclear. In order to answer this question, here we …

Sensory consequences of an agent's actions are perceived less intensely than sensory
stimuli that are not caused (and thus not predicted) by the observer. This effect of sensory …

The embodied self is rooted in the self-body in the “here and now”. The senses of self-
ownership and self-agency have been proposed as the basis of the sense of embodied self …

Several law systems punish nonactions such as failures to render assistance, although it is
unknown if people spontaneously experience a sense of authorship for the consequences of …