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Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency - From Consciousness to Action
von: Michela Balconi
Springer-Verlag, 2010
ISBN: 9788847015876 , 192 Seiten
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: DRM
Preis: 96,29 EUR
Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Preface
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Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
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Section I Cognition, Consciousness and Agency
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1 The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology
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1.1 To Be an Agent: What Is the Sense of Agency?
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1.2 Action and Awareness of Action
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1.2.1 Does Awareness of Action Differ from the Sense of Agency?
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1.3 The Key Determinant Mechanisms for the Sense of Agency
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1.4 A Critical Approach to Intentions and Intentional Binding Phenomenon
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1.4.2 Self-consciousness and the Illusion of Agency
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1.4.1 Awareness, Consciousness, and Agency: Unconscious Perception and Unconscious Intentions
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1.4.3 Consciousness of Self and Consciousness of the Goal
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1.5 The Sense of Initiation
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1.5.1 The Limited Sense of Initiation: Libet’s Contribution
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1.6 The Sense of Control
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References
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2 Affordances and the Senseof Joint Agency
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2.1 Introduction
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2.2 Social Perception and Mind-reading
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2.3 The Concept of Affordances
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2.4 Instrumental vs Deontic Affordances
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2.5 Canonical Neurons as Reflecting Instrumental Affordances
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2.6 Egocentric vs Allocentric Perception of Affordances
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2.7 Mirror Neurons and Action-dependent Affordances
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2.8 Interpersonal Affordances
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2.9 Two Models of Joint Action
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2.10 Conclusions
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References
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Section II Brain, Agency and Self-agency: Neuropsychological Contributions to the Development of the Sense of Agency
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3 The Neuropsychology of Senses of Agency: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions
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3.1 Different Types of the Sense of Agency
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3.2 Feeling and Judgment in the Sense of Agency
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3.3 Empirical Paradigms of the Judgment of Agency
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3.3.1 The Awareness of Action: The Contribution of Event-related Potentials
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3.3.2 Time Perception and the Sense of Agency
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3.3.3 Visual Feedback and Awareness of Action
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3.3.4 Somatosensory Information for Agency
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3.3.5 Sense Integration
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3.3.6 Experimental Paradigms for the Feeling of Agency
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3.3.6.1 Illusion of Intention
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3.3.6.2 Experiencing the Disruption of Agency: Neuropsychological Evidence
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3.3.6.3 Embodiment or How to Represent the Self by Body Perception
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3.4 Minimal Self and Narrative Self
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3.4.1 Minimal Self: Self-agency as “I”
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3.4.2 Self Ascription
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3.4.3 Narrative Self: The Sense of Continuity
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References
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4 Functional Anatomy of the Senseof Agency: Past Evidence and Future Directions
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4.1 Introduction
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4.2 A Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence
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4.2.1 The Posterior Parietal Cortex and Inferior Parietal Lobule
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4.2.2 The Cerebellum
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4.2.3 The Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus
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4.2.4 The Insula
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4.2.5 The Supplementary Motor Area
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4.2.6 The Prefrontal Cortex
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4.3 Future Directions
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4.4 Conclusions
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References
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5 The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents
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5.1 Agency and Its Role in Human Behavior and Experience
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5.2 Agency and Experience
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5.2.1 Defining and Measuring Experience
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5.2.2 Agency in Daily Life: A Crucial Component of Optimal Experience
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5.3 Empirical Evidence: A Study with Italian Adolescents
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5.3.1 Aims and Methods
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5.3.2 Results
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5.4 Agency and Daily Experience: A Promising Research Domain
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References
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6 Agency and Inter-agency, Actionand Joint Action: Theoretical and Neuropsychological Evidence
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6.1 Introduction
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6.2 An Introduction to Agency
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6.3 The Beginning: Intentions and Collective Intentions
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6.3.1 From I to We
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6.3.2 We in Action
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6.4 Doing Things Together: Joint Action and the Sense of Agency
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6.5 Over the Self-other Differentiation: Circular Interactions and Joint Agency
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6.5.1 The Intersubjective Origins of Joint Agency: A Developmental Perspective
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6.6 Inter-acting Selves, Social Agency, and Neural Correlates
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6.6.1 The Original Distinction of Our-selves and Other-selves
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6.6.2 Self-other Differentiation, Agency and Sociality: Hypotheses and Neuropsychological Evidence
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6.7 Conclusions
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References
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Section III Clinical Aspects Associated with Disruption of the Sense of Agency
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7 Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowledge
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7.1 Introduction
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7.2 Disruption of Agency in the Perceptual Field and in Proprioception
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7.2.1 Agency and Body: Predictivity Function of the Body for Self-representation
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7.2.2 Perceptual Illusions of Body
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7.2.3 Blindsight and Numbsense
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7.2.4 A Tentative Conclusion Regarding Perceptual Level Impairment
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7.3 Attentive Deficits and the Sense of Agency
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7.3.1 Visual Neglect Syndrome
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7.3.2 Somatosensory Neglect
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7.4 The Fallibility of Self-attribution of Agency in Neuropsychiatry
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7.4.1 Frontotemporal Dementia and the Delusion of Control in Frontal Deficits
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7.4.2 Agency and Schizophrenia
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7.4.3 Concluding Remarks on Schizophrenia
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7.4.4 Autism: Mentalizing vs Agency Disruption
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7.4.5 Dissociated States: Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
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7.4.6 Lines of Research on the Disruption of Agency: ERPs and Personality
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References
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8 Disturbances of the Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia
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8.1 Introduction
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8.2 The Comparator Model and Its Explanatory Limitations
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8.3 Feeling of Agency vs Judgement of Agency
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8.4 Optimal Cue Integration as the Basis of the Sense of Agency
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8.5 Altered Cue Integration as the Basis of Delusions of Influence
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8.5.1 Intentional Binding: Impaired Predictions and Excessive Linkage of External Sensory Events
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8.5.2 Perception of Hand Movements: Imprecise Predictions Prompting an Over-reliance on External Action Cues
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8.6 Conclusions
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References
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9 Looking for Outcomes: The Experience of Control and Sense of Agency in Obsessive-compulsive Behaviors
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9.1 Introduction
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9.2 The Clinical Features and Phenomenology of OCD
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9.3 Sense of Agency in OCD: Empirical Data
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9.4 Summary and Discussion
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9.5 Conclusions
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References
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10 Body and Self-awareness: Functional and Dysfunctional Mechanisms
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10.1 The Sense of Agency and the Sense of Ownership as Components of Self-consciousness
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10.2 The Sense of Body Ownership vs the Sense of Agency
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10.3 The Sense of My Body as Mine: A Threefold Perspective
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10.4 A Spatial Hypothesis of Body Representation
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10.5 Neural Substrates of the Sense of Ownership
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10.6 Disruption of the Sense of Ownership: Conscious and Non-conscious Body Perception
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10.6.1 The Rubber Hand Illusion: Evidence of Disownership Phenomena
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10.6.2 Other Body Impairments: Neuropsychological Disorders
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References
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Subject Index
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