We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME Cognitive Seminar Series: Date & Time: May 27, Monday, 12:00-13:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *Sensory prediction and the sense of agency during individual and joint action* *John Dewey* Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Abstract During voluntary action, forward models in the brain pre-activate representations of the predicted sensory consequences. These forward models are believed to play important roles in motor control and the sense of agency (SoA), i.e. registration that one was the initiator or controller of the action. The majority of the literature on sensory prediction and its relation to SoA has focused on individual actions. By contrast, there has been relatively little work on sensory prediction and SoA when the sensory consequences of actions are multiply determined by several simultaneous influences. In this talk, I will present an overview of current theories linking SoA to sensory prediction in the context of individual action. Then I will present some evidence from my recent work suggesting that in the context of cooperative joint action (e.g. controlling a moving object together with another person), the tight relationship between sensory prediction and SoA begins to break down. I will argue for a hierarchical account of SoA, where SoA is determined by a combination of low-level sensorimotor cues and successful attainment of higher level goals. -- Attila Keresztes Junior Research Fellow Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. of Cognitive Science, Egry József u. 1, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel: +36 1 4633525