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2026

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Neuroscience

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Psychology

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Citations
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239
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2016 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Overview

Patrick Haggard is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. Their work also touches on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

The topics frequently addressed in their research include:

  • Free Will and Agency
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Haggard has contributed to numerous publications, with a strong presence in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Among recent notable papers related to Haggard's fields of study are:

  • "The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality," 2020, Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • "Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Vestibular cognition: State-of-the-art and future directions," 2020, Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • "The effect of military training on the sense of agency and outcome processing," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The sense of agency in emerging technologies for human-computer integration: A review," 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Patrick Haggard include:

  • Hiroaki Gomi
  • Antonio Cataldo
  • Kailash P. Bhatia
  • Ivan Ezquerra-Romano
  • Elisabeth Parés-Pujolràs

In 2016, Patrick Haggard received the Jean Nicod Prize from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

Best Publications

  • Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers

    B. Calvo-Merino;D.E. Glaser;J. Grèzes;R.E. Passingham

  • Voluntary action and conscious awareness.

    Patrick Haggard;Sam Clark;Jeri Kalogeras

  • The Rubber Hand Illusion Revisited: Visuotactile Integration and Self-Attribution.

    Manos Tsakiris;Patrick Haggard

  • Seeing or Doing? Influence of Visual and Motor Familiarity in Action Observation

    Beatriz Calvo-Merino;Julie Grèzes;Daniel E. Glaser;Richard E. Passingham;Richard E. Passingham

  • Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will

    Patrick Haggard

  • What is embodiment? A psychometric approach

    Matthew R. Longo;Friederike Schüür;Friederike Schüür;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Manos Tsakiris;Manos Tsakiris

  • Sense of agency in the human brain

    Patrick Haggard

  • On the relation between brain potentials and the awareness of voluntary movements

    Patrick Haggard;Martin Eimer

  • Conscious intention and motor cognition

    Patrick Haggard

  • Neural Signatures of Body Ownership: A Sensory Network for Bodily Self-Consciousness

    Manos Tsakiris;Maike D. Hesse;Christian Boy;Patrick Haggard

  • Having a body versus moving your body: How agency structures body-ownership

    Manos Tsakiris;Gita Prabhu;Patrick Haggard

  • Attention to intention

    Hakwan C. Lau;Robert D. Rogers;Patrick Haggard;Richard E. Passingham

  • When Feeling Is More Important Than Seeing in Sensorimotor Adaptation

    Robert J van Beers;Daniel M Wolpert;Patrick Haggard

  • The rubber hand illusion: sensitivity and reference frame for body ownership.

    Marcello Costantini;Patrick Haggard

  • The Role of Execution Noise in Movement Variability

    Robert J. van Beers;Patrick Haggard;Daniel M. Wolpert

  • More than skin deep: Body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex

    Matthew R. Longo;Elena Azañón;Elena Azañón;Patrick Haggard

  • Effects of frequency on visual word recognition tasks: where are they?

    S. Monsell;M. C. Doyle;P. N. Haggard

  • To do or not to do: the neural signature of self-control.

    Marcel Brass;Patrick Haggard

  • Awareness of action: Inference and prediction

    James W. Moore;Patrick Haggard

  • Noninformative vision improves the spatial resolution of touch in humans.

    Steffan Kennett;Marisa Taylor-Clarke;Patrick Haggard

  • Sense of agency

    Patrick Haggard;Valerian Chambon;Valerian Chambon

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Longo
Matthew R. Longo Birkbeck, University of London
Christos Ganos
Christos Ganos Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Manos Tsakiris
Manos Tsakiris Royal Holloway University of London
Gian Domenico Iannetti
Gian Domenico Iannetti University College London
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell University College London
Elisabetta Làdavas
Elisabetta Làdavas University of Bologna
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Richard E. Passingham
Richard E. Passingham University of Oxford

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