ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2013
Freedom, choice, and the sense of agency.
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- Mobile App-Based Tracking of Daily Explicit and Implicit Sense of Agency Among Adults Living in Japan: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Observational
- Temporal dynamics of cue integration for sense of agency in social comparative context.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Effects of action instruction source on the sense of agency: humans vs. artificial agents.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Linking actions and memories: Probing the interplay of action-effect congruency, agency experience, and recognition memory.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Stage 1 registered report examining agency and outcome valence on inter-brain synchrony during dyadic moral judgments.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Previous experience of action-effect predictability and delay affect perceived agency and decision-making independently.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Obedience induces agentic shifts by increasing the perceived time between own action and results.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Active self-motion control and the role of agency under ambiguity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Motivation from Agency and Reward in Typical Development and Autism: Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neural Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Involuntary classroom transition moderates the effect of Present Hedonistic perspective on the belief in free will.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- What is new with Artificial Intelligence? Human-agent interactions through the lens of social agency.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- An investigation of "We" agency in co-operative joint actions.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Temporal binding past the Libet clock: testing design factors for an auditory timer.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
- Social Agency as a continuum.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it.Psychological research · 2021Article
- The obedient mind and the volitional brain: A neural basis for preserved sense of agency and sense of responsibility under coercion.PloS one · 2021Article
- The apparent action causation: Using a magician forcing technique to investigate our illusory sense of agency over the outcome of our choices.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2020Article
- The role of action intentionality and effector in the subjective expansion of temporal duration after saccadic eye movements.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The sense of agency is an intriguing aspect of human consciousness and is commonly defined as the sense that one is the author of their own actions and their consequences. In the current study, we varied the number of action alternatives (one, three, seven) that participants could select from and determined the effects on intentional binding which is believed to index the low-level sense of agency. Participants made self-paced button presses while viewing a conventional Libet clock and reported the perceived onset time of either the button presses or consequent auditory tones. We found that the binding effect was strongest when participants had the maximum number of alternatives, intermediate when they had medium level of action choice and lowest when they had no choice. We interpret our results in relation to the potential link between agency and the freedom to choose one's actions.
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