Sense of agency
We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?
Self and social cognition
Understanding your own actions and judgments, and the minds of other people.
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A few problems to explore
7 totalBody 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?