The sense of agency: A philosophical and empirical review of the "Who" system

被引:119
作者
de Vignemont, F
Fourneret, P
机构
[1] Inst Cognit Sci, UMR 5075, CNRS, F-69675 Bron, France
[2] Inst Jean Nicod, UMR, CNRS, Paris, France
关键词
self; agency; action monitoring; action awareness; neuropsychology; philosophy of mind; delusions of control;
D O I
10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00022-9
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
How do I know that I am the person who is moving? According to Wittgenstein (1958), the sense of agency involves a primitive notion of the self used as subject, which does not rely on any prior perceptual identification and which is immune to error through misidentification. However, the neuroscience of action and the neuropsychology of schizophrenia show the existence of specific cognitive processes underlying the sense of agency-the "Who" system (Georgieff & Jeannerod, 1998)-which is disrupted in delusions of control (Frith, 1992). Yet, we have to be careful in the interpretation of such clinical symptoms, which cannot be so easily reduced to deficit of action monitoring or to lack of action awareness. Moreover, we should refine the definition of the sense of agency by distinguishing the sense of initiation and the sense of one's own movements. A conceptual analysis of the empirical data will lead us to establish the taxonomy of the different levels of action representations. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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