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Losing Control in Social Situations: How the Presence of Others Affects Neural Processes Related to Sense of Agency.
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- Rejecting unfairness enhances the implicit sense of agency in the human brain.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Striatal correlates of Bayesian beliefs in self-efficacy in adolescents and their relation to mood and autonomy: a pilot study.Cerebral cortex communications · 2023Article
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- From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Review
- Social Agency as a continuum.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 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
- Sense of Agency Beyond Sensorimotor Process: Decoding Self-Other Action Attribution in the Human Brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- Dimensions of Musical Creativity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social contexts substantially influence individual behavior, but little is known about how they affect cognitive processes related to voluntary action. Previously, it has been shown that social context reduces participants' sense of agency over the outcomes of their actions and outcome monitoring. In this fMRI study on human volunteers, we investigated the neural mechanisms by which social context alters sense of agency. Participants made costly actions to stop inflating a balloon before it burst. On "social" trials, another player could act in their stead, but we analyzed only trials in which the other player remained passive. We hypothesized that mentalizing processes during social trials would affect decision-making fluency and lead to a decreased sense of agency. In line with this hypothesis, we found increased activity in the bilateral temporo-parietal junction (TPJ), precuneus, and middle frontal gyrus during social trials compared with nonsocial trials. Activity in the precuneus was, in turn, negatively related to sense of agency at a single-trial level. We further found a double dissociation between TPJ and angular gyrus (AG): activity in the left AG was not sensitive to social context but was negatively related to sense of agency. In contrast, activity in the TPJ was modulated by social context but was not sensitive to sense of agency.
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