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Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency
Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on SoA. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536267 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165 |
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author | Minohara, Rin Wen, Wen Hamasaki, Shunsuke Maeda, Takaki Kato, Motoichiro Yamakawa, Hiroshi Yamashita, Atsushi Asama, Hajime |
author_facet | Minohara, Rin Wen, Wen Hamasaki, Shunsuke Maeda, Takaki Kato, Motoichiro Yamakawa, Hiroshi Yamashita, Atsushi Asama, Hajime |
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description | Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on SoA. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution task as an explicit measure of SoA. The results indicate that strength of intentional effort enhanced self-attribution when action-effect congruency was unreliable. We concluded that intentional effort importantly affects the integration of multiple cues affecting explicit judgments of agency when the causal relationship action and effect was unreliable. |
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spelling | pubmed-49711002016-08-17 Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency Minohara, Rin Wen, Wen Hamasaki, Shunsuke Maeda, Takaki Kato, Motoichiro Yamakawa, Hiroshi Yamashita, Atsushi Asama, Hajime Front Psychol Psychology Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on SoA. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution task as an explicit measure of SoA. The results indicate that strength of intentional effort enhanced self-attribution when action-effect congruency was unreliable. We concluded that intentional effort importantly affects the integration of multiple cues affecting explicit judgments of agency when the causal relationship action and effect was unreliable. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4971100/ /pubmed/27536267 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165 Text en Copyright © 2016 Minohara, Wen, Hamasaki, Maeda, Kato, Yamakawa, Yamashita and Asama. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Minohara, Rin Wen, Wen Hamasaki, Shunsuke Maeda, Takaki Kato, Motoichiro Yamakawa, Hiroshi Yamashita, Atsushi Asama, Hajime Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title_full | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title_fullStr | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title_full_unstemmed | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title_short | Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency |
title_sort | strength of intentional effort enhances the sense of agency |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536267 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165 |
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