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I’m a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, working with Valerian Chambon and Elisabeth Pacherie. My work explores the relation between the sense of agency, action, and metacognition. In particular, we will investigate how metacognition of action influences the sense of agency and action control, by means of behavioural, computational, and neuroimaging methods.

I completed my PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, under the supervision of Professor Patrick Haggard. During my PhD, I focussed on how action selection processes inform our experience of agency, independently of monitoring the outcomes of action. A variety of tasks were used to manipulate action selection, both consciously and unconsciously. Additionally, the neural mechanisms underlying the sense of agency were investigated with EEG.

Publications :

Sidarus, N., Vuorre, M., & Haggard, P. (2017). Integrating prospective and retrospective cues to the sense of agency : a multi-study investigation. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 3(1). doi : 10.1093/nc/nix012

Sidarus, N., Vuorre, M., Metcalfe, J., & Haggard, P. (2017). Investigating the prospective sense of agency : Effects of processing fluency, stimulus ambiguity, and response conflict. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(545). doi : 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00545

Sidarus, N., Vuorre, M. & Haggard, P. (2017). How Action Selection Influences the Sense of Agency : an ERP study. NeuroImage. doi : 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.015

Beyer, F.*, Sidarus, N.*, Bonicalzi, S., & Haggard, P. (2016). Beyond self-serving bias : diffusion of responsibility reduces sense of agency and outcome monitoring. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi : 10.1093/scan/nsw160

Teuchies, M., Demanet, J., Sidarus, N., Haggard, P., Stevens, M., & Brass, M. (2016). Influences of Unconscious Priming on Voluntary actions : role of the Rostral Cingulate Zone. NeuroImage, 135, 243–252. doi : 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.036

Sidarus, N., & Haggard, P. (2016). Difficult action decisions reduce the sense of agency : A study using the Eriksen flanker task. Acta Psychologica, 166, 1–11. doi : 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.03.003

Chambon, V.*, Sidarus, N.* & Haggard, P. (2014) From action intentions to action effects : how does the sense of agency come about ? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:320. doi : 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00320

Stenner, M.-P., Bauer, M., Sidarus, N., Heinze, H.-J., Haggard, P., & Dolan, R. J. (2014). Subliminal action priming modulates the perceived intensity of sensory action consequences. Cognition, 130 (2), 227–235. doi : 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.008

Sidarus, N., Chambon, V., & Haggard, P. (2013). Priming of actions increases sense of control over unexpected outcomes. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (4), 1403–1411. doi : 10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.008

* - equally contributing authors.