Stepehen C Krieger

Cognitive and neural components of the phenomenology of agency.

Neurocase September 9, 2010 Ezequiel Morsella, Christopher C. Berger, Stepehen C Krieger

A primary aspect of the self is the sense of agency – the sense that one is causing an action. In the spirit of recent reductionistic approaches to other complex, multifaceted phenomena (e.g., working memory; cf. Johnson &Johnson, 2009), we attempt to unravel the sense of agency by investigating its most basic components, without invoking high-level conceptual or 'central executive' processes....