Virtual Body Ownership and Agency

Мозг, речь, язык и нейролингвистика Significance Statement Under normal circumstances we consciously attribute authorship of our actions to ourselves, the sensation of agency. We describe an experiment where participants observed a virtual human character speak and falsely attributed the speaking to themselves. This accompanies the paper: Domna Banakou Mel Slater (2014) Body Ownership Causes Illusory SelfAttribution of Speaking and Influences Subsequent Real Speaking, PNAS: