NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF THE SENSE OF AGENCY -- NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF THE SENSE OF AGENCY -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology -- Abstract -- 1. What is the Sense of Agency? -- 1.1. The Necessity For Agency. Some Preliminary Concepts -- 2. Agency and Action -- 2.1. Action and Awareness of Action -- 2.2. Does Awareness of Action Differ From the Sense of Agency? Some Empirical Evidences -- 2.3. The Necessity of Comparison and Feedback Mechanism For Agency -- 3. Agency and Body: Predictivity Function of Body For Perceptual Goals -- 3.1. Neuropsychological Evidences of Body Contribution for the Sense of Agency -- 3.2. Body Sense Integration -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The Role of Intention for Action and Agency -- Abstract -- 1. Intentions, Action and Agency: Some Theoretical Models -- 1.1. Pacheri's Threefold Levels -- 1.2. Pockett's Model of Intentions: Willed and Sensorimotor Intentions -- 2. A Critical Approach to Intentions -- 2.1. The Intentional Binding -- 2.2. Awareness and Agency: Unconscious Perception, Unconscious Intentions -- 3. The Sense of Initiation -- 3.1. The Limited Sense of Initiation: Libet's Contribution -- 4. The Sense of Control -- 5. Consciousness and Agency -- 5.1. The Illusion of Agency? Consciousness and Awareness of the Self -- 5.2. Consciousness of Self and Consciousness of the Goal -- 5.3. Conclusive Remarks on Consciousness -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- More than One Level of the Sense of Agency? -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction: Different Types of Agency -- 2. Lower Level (Feeling), and Higher Level (Judgement) of Sense of Agency -- 3. Minimal Self and Narrate Self -- 3.1. Minimal Self: Self-Agency as "I" -- 3.1.1. Self Ascription -- 3.2. Narrative Self: The Sense of Continuity -- 3.3. Action and Agent: Different Memory Stores and Different Neural Correlates?.

4. The Sense of Agency For Self and For Others: The "Perceptual" Basis of Empathy -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Research Paradigms for Agency. State of the Art -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiments on Judgement of Agency -- 2.1. The Awareness of Action: ERP Contribution -- 2.2. Time Perception and the Sense of Agency -- 2.3. Visual Feedback and Awareness of Action -- 2.4. Somatosensory Information For Agency: Some Biases -- 2.5. Sense Integration -- 3. Experimental Paradigms For the Feeling of Agency -- 3.1. Illusion of Intention -- 3.2. Experiencing Disruption of Agency: Neuropsychological Evidences -- 3.3. Embodiment or How to Represent the Self by Body Perception -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- An Electroencephalographic Contribution to the Analysis of Disrupted Sense of Agency. Feedback Sensitivity, Punishment-Reward System and Behavior Identification of Action -- Abstract -- 1. Disruption of the Sense of Agency and Error Monitoring System -- 2. Action Identification and Agency: What Relationship? -- 3. Individual Sensitivity to External Cues: -- BIS and BAS System -- 4. Research Lines on Agency and Personal Differences -- 4.1. Experimental Procedure -- 4.2 Electroencephalographic Measures -- 4.3. Correlational Analysis between the Experimental Measures -- 5. Highlights of the Pilot Research and Future Goals -- 5.1 Electroencephalographic Modulation of Agency -- 5.2 Levels of Action Identification and the Disrupted Sense of Agency -- 5.3 BIS/BAS Effect on Error Monitoring -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Disruption of the Sense of Agency -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Disruption of Agency in Perceptual Field -- 2.1. Body and Agency: Blindsight Ad Numbsense -- 2.2. Perceptual Illusions of Body -- 3. Attentive Deficits and the Sense of Agency -- 3.1. Visual Neglect Syndrome -- 3.2. Somatosensory Neglect.

3.3. A Tentative Conclusion on Perceptual Level Impairment -- 4. The Fallibility of Self-Attribution of Agency in Neuropsychiatry -- 4.1. Delusion of Control in Frontal Deficits -- 4.2. Agency and Schizophrenia -- 4.3. Some Conclusive Remarks -- 4.4. Autism: Mentalizing vs. Agency Disruption -- 4.5. Dissociated States: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.