The experience of ‘self-agency’ in health and schizophrenia
This project focuses on anatomical and cognitive underpinnings of the experience of ‘self-agency’, i.e. the feeling that one causes one’s own actions and their outcomes. This will be approached by examining structural and functional neural correlates of conscious and unconscious processes underlying the ascription of authorship in health and in schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder strongly associated with a disturbed sense of agency. The ultimate goal is to understand (possibly differential) neural substrates and cognitive processes leading to these experiences in health and schizophrenia.