Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency
Sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on sense of agency. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three type...
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| author | Rin Minohara Wen Wen Shunsuke Hamasaki Takaki Maeda Motoichiro Kato Hiroshi Yamakawa Atsushi Yamashita Hajime Asama |
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| description | Sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on sense of agency. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution task as an explicit measure of sense of agency. The results indicate that strength of intentional effort enhanced self-attribution when action-effect congruency was unreliable. We concluded that intentional effort importantly affects the integration of multiple cues affecting explicit judgments of agency when the causal relationship action and effect was unreliable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b4f49a9bea9466191c035f561b6a8f32022-12-21T18:55:43ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782016-08-01710.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165187294Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of AgencyRin Minohara0Wen Wen1Shunsuke Hamasaki2Takaki Maeda3Motoichiro Kato4Hiroshi Yamakawa5Atsushi Yamashita6Hajime Asama7The University of TokyoThe University of TokyoThe University of TokyoKeio University School of MedicineKeio University School of MedicineThe University of TokyoThe University of TokyoThe University of TokyoSense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on sense of agency. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution task as an explicit measure of sense of agency. The results indicate that strength of intentional effort enhanced self-attribution when action-effect congruency was unreliable. We concluded that intentional effort importantly affects the integration of multiple cues affecting explicit judgments of agency when the causal relationship action and effect was unreliable.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165/fullsense of agencycue integrationcomparator modelintentional effortself-attribution task |
| spellingShingle | Rin Minohara Wen Wen Shunsuke Hamasaki Takaki Maeda Motoichiro Kato Hiroshi Yamakawa Atsushi Yamashita Hajime Asama Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency Frontiers in Psychology sense of agency cue integration comparator model intentional effort self-attribution task |
| title | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
| title_full | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
| title_fullStr | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
| title_short | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
| title_sort | strength of intentional effort enhances the sense of agency |
| topic | sense of agency cue integration comparator model intentional effort self-attribution task |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165/full |
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