Body ownership causes illusory self-attribution of speaking and influences subsequent real speaking.

ABSTRACT: When we carry out an act, we typically attribute the action to ourselves, the sense of agency. Explanations for agency include conscious prior intention to act, followed by observation of the sensory consequences; brain activity that involves the feed-forward prediction of the consequences combined with rapid inverse motor prediction to fine-tune the action in real time; priming where there is, e.g., a prior command to perform the act; a cause (the intention to act) preceding the effect (the results of the action); and common-sense rules of attribution of physical causality satisfied. We describe an experiment where participants falsely attributed an act to themselves under conditions that apparently cannot be explained by these theories. A life-sized virtual body (VB) seen from the first-

SUBMITTER: Banakou D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4267370 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature