Lectures and seminars Did I do that? The subjective experience of agency and its neural correlates in healthy and pathological conditions

Although much of the functioning of our motor system occurs without awareness, we “know” when we are actors of our behaviours. We also predict and are conscious of the consequences of our intended motor acts, with reference to our goals. The feeling of voluntarily controlling our own actions and, through them, the events in the outside world is the so-called “sense of agency”, a crucial component of action monitoring and self-awareness. In my presentation, I will review a series of studies exploring the sense of agency using behavioural tasks, functional magnetic imaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation, in healthy and pathological populations, during individual and joint actions