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The sense of agency as tracking control

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posted on 2023-06-12, 08:34 authored by Zoltan DienesZoltan Dienes, Emilie A Caspar, Andrea Desantis, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Haggard
Does sense of agency (SoA) arise merely from action-outcome associations, or does an additional real-time process track each step along the chain? Tracking control predicts that deviant intermediate steps between action and outcome should reduce SoA. In two experiments, participants learned mappings between two finger actions and two tones. In later test blocks, actions triggered a robot hand moving either the same or a different finger, and also triggered tones, which were congruent or incongruent with the mapping. The perceived delay between actions and tones gave a proxy measure for SoA. Action-tone binding was stronger for congruent than incongruent tones, but only when the robot movement was also congruent. Congruent tones also had reduced N amplitudes, but again only when the robot movement was congruent.We suggest that SoA partly depends on a real time tracking control mechanism, since deviant intermediate action of the robot reduced SoA over the tone.

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PLoS Medicine

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1549-1277

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Public Library of Science

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10

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11

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e0163892

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2016-11-22

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2016-11-22

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2016-11-22

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