TABLE OF CONTENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION……….…p. 7

THESENSEOFAGENCY: ANINCREASINGLY PROMINENTFIELD……….……p. 8

Abnormalities in the awareness of action Responsibility for actions

THEBASIS OFTHESENSEOFAGENCY: VOLUNTARYACTIONS………p. 14

Free will

The Libet experiment and its contribution to human will The neural origin of willed actions

The when decision The what decision The where decision

HOWTOMEASURETHESENSEOFAGENCY……….………p. 27

Explicit measures Implicit measures Intentional binding

The intentional binding with patients Sensory attenuation

Implicit and explicit measures: dependent or independent?

HOWDOESTHESENSEOFAGENCYCOMEABOUT?………..……….…p. 36

A retrospective account of agency A prospective account of agency

AIMSOFTHEPRESENTTHESIS………..………….……….…………p. 44

BIBLIOGRAPHY……….…….………p. 46

CHAPTER 2

RATIONALE……….…p. 51

The concept of body-ownership

The relationship between ownership and agency The flexibility of the human sense of agency

STUDY 1 - CREATIONANDVALIDATIONOFAROBOTICHAND……….………p. 61

Experiment 1 Method Results Experiment 2 Method Results Experiment 3 Method Results Supplementary analysis Discussion

STUDY 2 - MEDIATIONAND FLEXIBILITYINTHESENSEOFAGENCY………..…………p. 71

General discussion

STUDY 3 - THERUBBERHANDILLUSIONINTHEACTIVEANDTHECLASSICALPARADIGMS………..….…p. 86 CONCLUSIONOF CHAPTER 2………..……….…p. 91 BIBLIOGRAPHY……….………..….……p. 92 CHAPTER 3

RATIONALE……….………..………p. 97 STUDY 4 - DISTURBANCEINTHEINTENTION-ACTION-OUTCOMECHAIN………..………p. 99 Experiment 1 Method Results Discussion Experiment 2 Method Results Discussion General Discussion

STUDY 5 - THEROBOTICHAND: AMEANORACONSEQUENCE?……….……p. 116 Experiment 1 Method Results Discussion Experiment 2 Method Results Discussion CONCLUSIONOF CHAPTER 3……….……….……p. 121 BIBLIOGRAPHY……….………..…….…p. 121 CHAPTER 4 RATIONALE……….………..…….…p. 123 STUDY 6 - « ONLYOBEYINGORDERS »: EFFECTOFCOERCIONONTHESENSEOFAGENCY………p. 126 Method

Results Discussion

STUDY 7 - INFLUENCEOFCOERCIONONTHESENSEOFAGENCYINTHEHUMANBRAIN………..….p. 139 Method

Results Discussion

STUDY 8 - EFFECTOFOUTCOMEVALENCEONTHESENSEOFAGENCY……….……….…………p. 152 BIBLIOGRAPHY……….………p. 158 CHAPTER 5

KEYFINDINGSINCHAPTER 2 ANDIMPLICATIONS………p. 162 KEYFINDINGSINCHAPTER 3 AND IMPLICATIONS………p. 164 KEYFINDINGSINCHAPTER 4 ANDIMPLICATIONS………p. 168 The seminal experiment of Stanley Milgram

How to explain obedience in Milgram’s experiments?

Can cognitive neurosciences affect the notion of criminal responsibility? Is there a relationship between the sense of agency and empathy?

Future directions