Sense of agency: Sensorimotor signals and social context are differentially weighed at implicit and explicit levels.

Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9303140 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1090-2376 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10538100 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Conscious Cogn Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: San Diego : Academic Press, c1992-

Cues* ; Social Interaction*; Awareness/*physiology ; Heuristics/*physiology ; Judgment/*physiology ; Motor Activity/*physiology ; Psychomotor Performance/*physiology ; Visual Perception/*physiology; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male

Sense of agency (SoA) describes the experience of being the author of an action. Cue integration approaches divide SoA into an implicit level, mostly relying on prospective sensorimotor signals, and an explicit level, resulting from an integration of sensorimotor and contextual cues based on their reliability. Integration mechanisms at each level and the contribution of implicit to explicit SoA remain underspecified. In a task of movements with visual outcomes, we tested the effect of social context (contextual cue) and sensory prediction congruency (retrospective sensorimotor cue) over implicit (intentional binding) and explicit (verbal judgments) SoA. Our results suggest that prospective sensorimotor cues determine implicit SoA. At the explicit level, retrospective sensorimotor cues and contextual cues are partly integrated in an additive way, but contextual cues can also act as a heuristic if sensorimotor cues are highly unreliable. We also found no significant association between implicit and explicit SoA.
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Keywords: Cue integration; Explicit level; Feeling of agency; Implicit level; Intentional binding; Judgment of agency; Sense of agency; Social interaction

Date Created: 20200821 Date Completed: 20210723 Latest Revision: 20210723

20231215

10.1016/j.concog.2020.103004

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