Cognitive neuroscience of ownership and agency q

The paper by Tsakiris et al. reviews an important series of recent studies that have investigated body ownership and agency using techniques from experimental psychology and neuroimaging. The reviewed data highlight the importance of multisensory as well as sensori-motor signals for both phenomena and tackle the fascinating issue of how humans’ everyday (mostly unconscious) bodily experiences of ownership and agency have been correlated with behavior and neural activation in controlled experiments. This is complemented by an introduction to important philosophical issues raised by the neuroscience of ownership and agency. The paper also reviews recent findings on the related topic of self-other discrimination. In what follows we have focussed on open questions for future research that seem important in order to build a cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience of bodily experience as well as bodily perception and cognition.