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Can the Sense of Agency Be a Marker of Free Will?

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2019
In this paper, I will analyse the relation between a sense of agency and free will. It is often proposed that by investigating the former, we can find a way of judging when an action is voluntary. Haggard seems to be one of the authors believing so.
Balcerak Paweł
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How Sense of Agency and Sense of Ownership can Affect Anxiety: a Study Based on Virtual Hand Illusion

open access: yesAnales de Psicologia, 2018
By using computer program we created a virtual environment to study the possible impacts of sense of agency and sense of ownership on anxiety. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether our setup could achieve the similar effect as ...
Zhang Jing, Chen Wei, Qian Yanyan
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Awareness of voluntary action, rather than body ownership, improves motor control

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Awareness of the body is essential for accurate motor control. However, how this awareness influences motor control is poorly understood. The awareness of the body includes awareness of visible body parts as one’s own (sense of body ownership) and ...
Kazumichi Matsumiya
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Changing Finger Movement Perception: Influence of Active Haptics on Visual Dominance

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
The perception of one’s own body is a complex mechanism that can be disturbed by conflicting sensory information and lead to illusory (mis-) perceptions.
Loën Boban   +4 more
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Body ownership promotes visual awareness

open access: yeseLife, 2017
The sense of ownership of one’s body is important for survival, e.g., in defending the body against a threat. However, in addition to affecting behavior, it also affects perception of the world.
Björn van der Hoort   +2 more
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The Impact of Large-scale Employee Share Ownership Plans on Labour Productivity: The Case of Eircom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Large-scale Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have been a distinctive characteristic of Irish public enterprise reform, with shareholdings of 14.9 per cent being allocated to employees as part of firm restructuring and privatisation programmes. This
McCarthy, Dermot, Palcic, Donal
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Courseware in academic library user education: A literature review from the GAELS Joint Electronic Library Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The use of courseware for information skills teaching in academic libraries has been growing for a number of years. In order to create effective courseware packages to support joint electronic library activity at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, the
Ashworth, Susan, Joint, Nick, Kemp, Bob
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Multisensory mechanisms of body ownership and self-location [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Having an accurate sense of the spatial boundaries of the body is a prerequisite for interacting with the environment and is thus essential for the survival of any organism with a central nervous system.
Guterstam, Arvid
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Pilot study of the relation between various dynamics of avatar experience and perceptual characteristics [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Computer Science
In recent years, due to the prevalence of virtual reality (VR) and human-computer interaction (HCI) research, along with the expectation that understanding the process of establishing sense of ownership, sense of agency, and limb heaviness (in this study,
Yuto Okamoto   +6 more
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A fronto-insular-parietal network for the sense of body ownership

open access: yesCerebral Cortex, 2021
Abstract Neuropsychological disturbances in the sense of limb ownership (DSO) provide a unique opportunity to study the neurocognitive basis of the sense of body ownership. Previous small sample studies focused on discrete cortical lesions and modular accounts, which cannot explain the modulations of DSO by multisensory, affective and cognitive
Moro, Valentina   +6 more
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