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Feeling in control: computational and neural basis of sense of agency| old_uid | 12982 |
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| title | Feeling in control: computational and neural basis of sense of agency |
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| start_date | 2013/11/08 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | People can make things happen. The feeling of voluntarily controlling one's own actions, and through them events in the outside world, is a fundamental part of human mental life. It is difficult to understand how characteristically human activities such as technology, future planning, and art could occur if we did not experience such a "sense of agency". However, how and why we have this experience remains very poorly understood. Animal studies of instrumental learning confirm the importance of acuired relations between actions and outcomes, but have not described the brain basis of the experience of agency. In this talk, I will describe very simple laboratory paradigms for studying sense of agency in humans using methods based on time
perception. I will show that sense of agency involves a combination of predictive knowledge about operant action, and also a retrospective attempt to explain the structure of events in the world. |
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| responsibles | Pélissier |
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