ArticleiScience2020
The Active Sensing of Control Difference.
Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mobile App-Based Tracking of Daily Explicit and Implicit Sense of Agency Among Adults Living in Japan: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Observational
- Active disambiguation guides inferring controllability and cause in social interactions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Investigation of sensory attenuation in the somatosensory domain using EEG in a novel virtual reality paradigm.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hierarchical analysis of the sense of agency in schizophrenia: motor control, control detection, and self-attribution.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Control over self and others' face: exploitation and exploration.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Developmental changes in action-outcome regularity perceptual sensitivity and its relationship to hand motor function in 5-16-year-old children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Perception and control: individual difference in the sense of agency is associated with learnability in sensorimotor adaptation.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Modified sensory feedback enhances the sense of agency during continuous body movements in virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Deceleration Assistance Mitigated the Trade-off Between Sense of Agency and Driving Performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur.Cognition · 2020Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In everyday life, people control objects in the world around them to varying degrees. The processes people actively use to establish their control, while interacting with an environment containing large ambiguity, remain unknown. This study examines how people explore their control over the environment and how they detect small differences in control among objects. In the experimental task, participants moved three dots on a screen and identified one dot over which the level of control is different from that of the other two. The results support a two-step behavior mechanism underlying the sensing of control difference: People first explore their overall control in the environment, and then the results of the initial exploration are used to selectively tune the direction (i.e., either more or less) of the detected control difference, ensuring efficient and rapid detection of the type of control difference that is potentially important for further action selections.
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