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The Sense of Agency as Tracking Control

Caspar, EA; Desantis, A; Dienes, Z; Cleeremans, A; Haggard, P; (2016) The Sense of Agency as Tracking Control. PLoS ONE , 11 (10) , Article e0163892. 10.1371/journal.pone.0163892. Green open access

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Abstract

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 N1 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.

Type: Article
Title: The Sense of Agency as Tracking Control
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163892
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163892
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 Caspar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, BAYES FACTORS, T TESTS, EXPERIENCE, MODEL, SELF, ATTENUATION, PSYCHOLOGY, PREDICTION, MECHANISMS, AWARENESS
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1524833
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