◇令和4年7月19日(火)加齢研研究員会セミナーのご案内

日時： 令和4年7月19日（火）午後3時〜
場所： 加齢医学研究所 スマート・エイジング棟2階セミナー室
演題： 身体的な自己意識の根源について
講師： ロレンツォ ピア, 准教授
所属： トリノ大学心理学科 (イタリア)
担当： ダリラ ブリン（所属　スマートエイジング学際重点研究センター・内線8585）
要旨： At present, there is a large consensus that human sense of agency
(i.e., “this action is due to my own will”) is rooted in a variety of
internal efferent signals arising within the motor system (e.g., motor
intentions, planning, sensorimotor predictions and so on). However,
recent neuroscientific evidence suggests that that also body-related
afferent signals subserving body ownership (i.e., “this body is mine”)
might have a role per se in building up human conscious awareness of
willed actions. In the present seminar, I will present data from both
brain damaged-patients and intact brain functioning supporting this
idea. Then, I will argue that, whenever required by the context, body
ownership per se can act on agency attribution (i.e., independently
from efferent signals). This, in turn, indicates that a unitary and
coherent subjective experience of willed actions (i.e., “this willed
action is being realized by my own body”) requires both awareness of
being an agent and of owning the body.