Self and social cognition

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Sense of agency

We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?

Body ownership

Vision and touch can make a rubber hand feel like your own. Which circuit processes produce this bodily attribution?

Metacognition

Choosing an answer and judging whether it is right are different tasks. Which brain computations produce that second judgment?

Theory of mind

Children learn to reason about what others know and want. How does this grow into understanding minds that influence one another?

Ticklishness

Tickling can produce involuntary laughter and mixed feelings. How human touch processing, context and laughter circuits combine remains incomplete.

Déjà vu

A new situation can feel familiar while you know that it is new. How does that clash arise?

Hypnotic suggestion

A suggestion can change how an arm feels, how an action seems to happen, or what someone perceives. The mechanisms differ across people and suggestions.