Is There Really a Loss of Agency in Patients With Apraxia of Tool Use?

François Osiurak^{1

2}, Mathieu Lesourd^{3

4}, Yves Rossetti^{5

6}, Josselin Baumard⁷

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
² Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
³ Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, LNC, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁴ CNRS, Fédération 3C, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁵ Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, and Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁶ Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁷ UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA7475), Normandie Univ, Rouen, France.

François Osiurak et al. Front Psychol. 2019.

. 2019 Feb 5:10:87.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00087. eCollection 2019.

François Osiurak^{1

2}, Mathieu Lesourd^{3

4}, Yves Rossetti^{5

6}, Josselin Baumard⁷

¹ Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
² Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
³ Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, LNC, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁴ CNRS, Fédération 3C, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁵ Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, and Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁶ Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁷ UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA7475), Normandie Univ, Rouen, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: apraxia; motor action; sense of agency; technical reasoning; tool use.

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