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1 online resource. |
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Cognition, Consciousness and Agency -- The Sense of Agency in Psychology and Neuropsychology -- Affordances and the Sense of Joint Agency -- Brain, Agency and Self-agency: Neuropsychological Contributions to the Development of the Sense of Agency -- The Neuropsychology of Senses of Agency: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions -- Functional Anatomy of the Sense of Agency: Past Evidence and Future Driections -- The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents -- Agency and Inter-agency, Action and Joint Action: Theoretical and Neuropsychological Evidence -- Clinical Aspects Associated with Disruption of the Sense of Agency -- Disruption of the Sense of Agency: From Perception to Self-knowldge -- Disturbances of the Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia -- Looking for Outcomes: The Experience of Control and Sense of Agency in Obsessive-compulsive Behaviors -- Body and Self-awareness: Functional and Dysfunctional Mechanisms. |
| Summary |
Two related fields, the psychological and neuropsychological ones, provide an exhaustive overview of the complex issue of agency and self-agency. The cognitive and neuropsychological correlates are here considered as two sides of the same coin, since we have the main scope to find a correspondence between the hardware (cerebral processes) and the software (cognitive processes) of the representation of agency. All living system self-regulates, or, within any living system, there is a need of communication among the different parts of that system. This can include a unit as small as a cell, a pl. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Neuropsychology.
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Consciousness -- physiology.
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Intention.
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Internal-External Control.
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Nervous System Diseases -- psychology.
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Self Concept.
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Neuropsychology. (OCoLC)fst01036493
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| Added Author |
Balconi, Michela.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Neuropsychology of the sense of agency. Milan ; London : Springer, 2010 9788847015869 (OCoLC)502034035 |
| ISBN |
9788847015876 |
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8847015871 |
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