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The sense of agency is defined as the “experience of oneself as the agent of one’s own action” ([1], p. 523). It means being the one causing a specific movement or generating a certain thought in the stream of consciousness [2]. This ability implies distinguishing actions that are self-generated from those generated by others [1], thus contributing to the subjective phenomenon of self-consciousness [2–4]. Moreover, being the initiator of an action entails representation of oneself as causally responsible for the action and for its direct effects [5].
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Bassi, M., Sartori, R.D.G., Delle Fave, A. (2010). The Monitoring of Experience and Agency in Daily Life: A Study with Italian Adolescents. In: Michela, B. (eds) Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1587-6_5
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