The neurocognitive structure of the acting self has recently been widely studied, yet is still
perplexing and remains an often confounded issue in cognitive neuroscience,
psychopathology and philosophy. We provide a new systematic account of two of its main
features, the sense of agency and the sense of ownership, demonstrating that although both
features appear as phenomenally uniform, they each in fact are complex crossmodal
phenomena of largely heterogeneous functional and (self-) representational levels. These …