ArticlePloS one2015
The sense of agency during continuous action: performance is more important than action-feedback association.
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- Giving AI agents a sense of control facilitates reinforcement learning in multitasking scenarios.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Action-outcome delays modulate the temporal expansion of intended outcomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Sense of agency at a gaze-contingent display with jittery temporal delay.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Force illusion induced by visual illusion: Illusory curve in cursor path is interpreted as unintended force.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Auditory Feedback for Enhanced Sense of Agency in Shared Control.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A multi-dimensional framework for prosthetic embodiment: a perspective for translational research.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Task-irrelevant object response to action enhances the sense of agency for controlling the object in automation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing.eLife · 2022Article
- Delay and Speed of Visual Feedback of a Keystroke Cause Illusory Heaviness and Stiffness.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The sense of agency in emerging technologies for human-computer integration: A review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- What is new with Artificial Intelligence? Human-agent interactions through the lens of social agency.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Effects of guided exploration on reaching measures of auditory peripersonal space.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The sense of agency refers to the feeling that one is controlling events through one's own behavior. This study examined how task performance and the delay of events influence one's sense of agency during continuous action accompanied by a goal. The participants were instructed to direct a moving dot into a square as quickly as possible by pressing the left and right keys on a keyboard to control the direction in which the dot traveled. The interval between the key press and response of the dot (i.e., direction change) was manipulated to vary task difficulty. Moreover, in the assisted condition, the computer ignored participants' erroneous commands, resulting in improved task performance but a weaker association between the participants' commands and actual movements of the dot relative to the condition in which all of the participants' commands were executed (i.e., self-control condition). The results showed that participants' sense of agency increased with better performance in the assisted condition relative to the self-control condition, even though a large proportion of their commands were not executed. We concluded that, when the action-feedback association was uncertain, cognitive inference was more dominant relative to the process of comparing predicted and perceived information in the judgment of agency.
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