Patrick Grüneberg

Voluntary initiation of movement: multifunctional integration of subjective agency.

Frontiers in Psychology May 22, 2015 Patrick Grüneberg, Hideki Kadone, Kenji Suzuki

This paper investigates subjective agency (SA) as a special type of efficacious action consciousness. Our central claims are, firstly, that SA is a conscious act of voluntarily initiating bodily motion. Secondly, we argue that SA is a case of multifunctional integration of behavioral functions being analogous to multisensory integration of sensory modalities. This is based on new perspectives...