AUTHOR=Lukitsch Oliver TITLE=An integral forward model of agency experience in thought and action JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 16 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1524904 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1524904 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=Historically, Frith’s comparator model has been a seminal account of the sense of agency in thought and bodily action. According to this model, only thoughts and actions that are successfully predicted are experienced as agentive, thus providing a unified account of the sense of agency for mind and body. However, this unified model has since been rejected on the grounds that thinking and bodily action impose different constraints on the experience of agency and conscious prediction. While this is widely accepted, the predictive processing model of the sense of agency offers a new perspective that avoids previous arguments against a unified comparator model and paves the way for its reintroduction.