ArticleScientific reports2021
Awareness of voluntary action, rather than body ownership, improves motor control.
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- Association of abnormal explicit sense of agency with cerebellar impairment in myoclonus-dystonia.Brain communications · 2024Article
- The experience of a tele-operated avatar being touched increases operator's sense of discomfort.PeerJ. Computer science · 2024Article
- Pilot study of the relation between various dynamics of avatar experience and perceptual characteristics.PeerJ. Computer science · 2024Article
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- Perceptual decisions interfere more with eye movements than with reach movements.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Auditory Feedback for Enhanced Sense of Agency in Shared Control.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Effects and Adaptation of Visual-Motor Illusion Using Different Visual Stimuli on Improving Ankle Joint Paralysis of Stroke Survivors-A Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Multiple representations of the body schema for the same body part.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Analysis of Gait Motion Changes by Intervention Using Robot Suit Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) in Myelopathy Patients After Decompression Surgery for Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Awareness of the body is essential for accurate motor control. However, how this awareness influences motor control is poorly understood. The awareness of the body includes awareness of visible body parts as one's own (sense of body ownership) and awareness of voluntary actions over that visible body part (sense of agency). Here, I show that sense of agency over a visible hand improves the initiation of movement, regardless of sense of body ownership. The present study combined the moving rubber hand illusion, which allows experimental manipulation of agency and body ownership, and the finger-tracking paradigm, which allows behavioral quantification of motor control by the ability to coordinate eye with hand movements. This eye-hand coordination requires awareness of the hand to track the hand with the eye. I found that eye-hand coordination is improved when participants experience a sense of agency over a tracked artificial hand, regardless of their sense of body ownership. This improvement was selective for the initiation, but not maintenance, of eye-hand coordination. These results reveal that the prospective experience of explicit sense of agency improves motor control, suggesting that artificial manipulation of prospective agency may be beneficial to rehabilitation and sports training techniques.
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