The sense of agency is a central aspect of human self-consciousness and refers to the experience of oneself as the agent of one's own actions. Several different cognitive theories on the sense of agency have been proposed implying divergent empirical approaches and results, especially with respect to neural correlates. A multifactorial and multilevel model of the sense of agency may provide the...

Presently, much discussion is going on about whether human beings possess a free will; whether human behaviour is intentional and goaldirected or rather automatic and primarily a product of neuronal processes; whether human beings can be held responsible for their behaviour; andto what degree behaviour is based on rationality and self-reflection. These discussions do more or less explicitly dea...

Correction Following publication of our article [1], we became aware that the following disclaimer was missing: This project was funded under Contract No. HHSA290200710062I from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The authors of this report are responsible for its content. Statements in the report should not be construed as endorsement b...

The present research investigates cultural variation in grounding principles for inferring agency. Our motivating question is whether cultural diversity in agency concepts reflects an animistic overextension of a single (universal) folkpsychology, as argued by many researchers, or an alternative folktheory of communication based on relational principles. In two experiments, a mind-perception me...

The investigation of human volition is a longstanding endeavor from both philosophers and researchers. Yet because of the major challenges associated with capturing voluntary movements in an ecologically relevant state in the research environment, it is only in recent years that human agency has grown as a field of cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the seminal work of Libet et al. (1983) p...

This paper outlines a sociomaterial perspective recognizing the tensions between different technological regimes in digital innovation. It is based on an automotive industry case study, specifically focusing on the tension between a deep-rooted component-based logic of existing innovation practices and an attempt to introduce a new software architecture, based on service orientation. It is sugg...