Self-Agency and Self-Ownership in Cognitive Mapping

Shahar Arzy; Daniel L. Schacter

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.003

Self-Agency and Self-Ownership in Cognitive Mapping

Shahar Arzy^*, Daniel L. Schacter

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Medical Neurobiology

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Abstract

The concepts of agency of one's actions and ownership of one's experience have proved useful in relating body representations to bodily consciousness. Here we apply these concepts to cognitive maps. Agency is defined as ‘the sense that I am the one who is generating the experience represented on a cognitive map’, while ownership is defined as ‘the sense that I am the one who is undergoing an experience, represented on a cognitive map’. The roles of agency and ownership are examined with respect to the transformation between egocentric and allocentric representations and the underlying neurocognitive and computational mechanisms; and within the neuropsychiatric domain, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other memory-related disorders, in which the senses of agency and ownership may be disrupted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	476-487
Number of pages	12
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	23
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.003
State	Published - Jun 2019

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Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Drs Morris Moscovitch, Mor Nitzan, Michael Peer, Greg Peters-Founshtein, Nimrod Shaham, Hugo Spiers, and Peggy St Jacques for helpful discussions and comments on parts of the manuscript. The authors? research contributing to this Opinion article is funded by the Israel Science Foundations (grant nos 2598/16 and 1306/18 to S.A.), The Orion Foundation, and the National Institute on Aging (grant R01 NIA008441) and National Institute of Mental Health (grant R01 MH060941) to D.L.S.

Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Drs Morris Moscovitch, Mor Nitzan, Michael Peer, Greg Peters-Founshtein, Nimrod Shaham, Hugo Spiers, and Peggy St Jacques for helpful discussions and comments on parts of the manuscript. The authors’ research contributing to this Opinion article is funded by the Israel Science Foundations (grant nos 2598/16 and 1306/18 to S.A.), The Orion Foundation , and the National Institute on Aging (grant R01 NIA008441 ) and National Institute of Mental Health (grant R01 MH060941 ) to D.L.S.

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Keywords

Alzheimer's disease
agency
memory
modeling
ownership
simulation

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