How Action Shapes Body Ownership Momentarily and Throughout the Lifespan.

Objects which a human agent controls by efferent activities (such as real or virtual tools) can be perceived by the agent as belonging to his or her body. This suggests that what an agent counts as "body" is plastic, depending on what she or he controls. Yet there are possible limitations for such momentary plasticity.

ERP markers of action planning and outcome monitoring in human - robot interaction.

The present study aimed to examine event-related potentials (ERPs) of action planning and outcome monitoring in human-robot interaction. To this end, participants were instructed to perform costly actions (i.e.

The neurophysiological correlates of handedness: Insights from the lateralized readiness potential.

Handedness is the most investigated form of functional hemispheric asymmetries, but its neural correlates remain unclear. Functional imaging studies suggest differences between left- and right-handers in ipsilateral activation during unilateral hand movements, but do not allow for conclusions on the temporal dimension. In the Tapley and Bryden task, subjects have to draw as many dots as possible on a paper within 20 s using either the left or the right hand.