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Sense of Agency and the human brain| title | Sense of Agency and the human brain |
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| start_date | 2025/05/12 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | Our mental life is often dominated by what we are doing, and by what we are trying to achieve. Psychologists use the term 'sense of agency' to refer to the experience of controlling one's own actions, and, through them, events in the outside world. Our sense of agency is so ubiquitous that we are hardly aware of it as a distinct mental process, yet it clearly underpins many features of modern life, including legal responsibility, material culture, technology, and socio-political empowerment. To make scientific progress, psychology often needs to measure things that are by nature elusive and hard to quantify: measuring the sense of agency proves particularly challenging. This talk describes how measuring sense of agency indirectly, through distortions of time perception that accompany goal-directed action, has shed important light on this key feature of mental life, and suggests some future research agendas for sense of agency. |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/05/09 07:15 UTC |
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