Gabriel Siegel
gabesiegel.bsky.social
Gabriel Siegel
@gabesiegel.bsky.social
Philosopher of mind and science @ University of Iowa www.gabrielsiegel.org
New paper forthcoming in Review of Philosophy and Psychology. I defend a novel account of the sense of agency in perceptual experience. I argue that the perceptual sense of agency should be modeled as an intentional mode, rather than as represented contents.

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Gabriel Siegel, The Perceptual Sense of Agency - PhilPapers
The sense of agency is the experience of predicting, initiating, or controlling actions. In this paper, I provide a novel account of the sense of agency that appears in perceptual consciousness. ...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
New psych paper out in APP with Richard Abrams. We show that object-centered statistical regularities transfer to new spatial locations even in the absence of any explicit object and hence may not be truly object centered.

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Transfer of statistical regularity in visual search - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
People are able to take advantage of statistical regularities in scenes, using those regularities to bias their attention to the likely locations of items of interest. People also seem able to learn o...
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August 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM