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Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity.
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- Motor beta oscillations contribute to the temporal binding effect.Brain and cognition · 2025Article
- Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain-machine interface-mediated actions.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Brain-Computer Interface tool use and the Contemplation Conundrum: a blueprint of mental action, agency, and control.Oxford open neuroscience · 2025Article
- Brain functional network abnormalities in Parkinson's disease patients at different disease stages.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are still not fully understood. We hypothesized that oscillations in the theta-alpha range, thought to orchestrate long-range neural connectivity, may mediate sensorimotor comparisons. To test this, we manipulated the relation between intentions and actions in a tetraplegic user of a brain machine interface (BMI), decoding primary motor cortex (M1) activity to restore hand functionality. We found that the pre-movement phase of low-alpha oscillations in M1 predicted the participant's agency judgements. Further, using EEG-BMI in healthy participants, we found that pre-movement alpha oscillations in M1 and supplementary motor area (SMA) correlated with agency ratings, and with changes in their functional connectivity with parietal, temporal and prefrontal areas. These findings argue for phase-driven gating as a key mechanism for sensorimotor integration and sense of agency.
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