Abnormalities in the awareness of action.
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Optimal motor control relies on internal representations of the actual, desired and predicted states of our limbs and the external world. Only certain components of these internal representations are available to awareness. We suggest that impairments of the components of internal representations might underlie a broad variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including the anarchic hand sign, phantom limbs, utilization behaviour and delusions of control.
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The minimal contribution of the specific type of agency investigated (MS′ compared to MS) seems to be in conflict with previous studies that suggested the importance of motor cues for the sense of self.
“The minimal contribution of the specific type of agency that we investigated (MS′ compared to MS) seems to be in conflict with previous studies that suggested the importance of motor cues for the sense of self [19], [20].”
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- Authors
- Blakemore, S.-J., Wolpert, D. M., & Frith, C. D.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 237-242
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2106360908
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- FWCI
- 1.47
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- internal representations, motor control, phantom limb, delusions of control, neuropsychiatric symptoms
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