ArticleAffective science2020
Feeling in Control: The Role of Cardiac Timing in the Sense of Agency.
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- Reduced sensory attenuation is related to aberrant interoceptive influences on intentional binding in schizophrenia.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
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- When the heart inhibits the brain: Cardiac phases modulate short-interval intracortical inhibition.iScience · 2024Article
- Altered sense of agency in schizophrenia: the aberrant effect of cardiac interoceptive signals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Impaired cardiac modulation in patients with functional seizures: Results from a face intensity judgment task.Epilepsia · 2023Article
- Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Interoceptive rhythms in the brain.Nature neuroscience · 2023Review
- The relationship between interoception and agency and its modulation by heartbeats: an exploratory study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cardiac Cycle Affects the Asymmetric Value Updating in Instrumental Reward Learning.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The sense of agency describes the experience of controlling one's body to cause desired effects in the world. We explored whether this is influenced by interoceptive processes. Specifically, we investigated whether the sense of agency changes depending on where, in the cardiac cycle (systole or diastole), the action was executed and where the outcome of the action occurred. In two experiments, participants completed decision-making task to win/lose money. Explicit (ratings of control) and implicit (temporal judgement) measures of agency were differentially affected by cardiovascular state. Implicit agency scores were affected by the cardiac phase at the point of action execution. Explicit ratings of control were affected by the type of (free vs. instructed) and by outcome valence (win vs. lose). The time of the action was uniformly distributed across the cardiac cycle. These results show interoceptive impact on agency, but that cardiac cycle may affect explicit and implicit agency differently.
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