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Categorical Perception of Control

The self is a distinct entity from the rest of the world, and actions and sensory feedback are our channels of interaction with the external world. This study examined how the sense of control influences people’s perception of sensorimotor input under the framework of categorical perception. Twenty...

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Autores principales: Wen, Wen, Shimazaki, Naoto, Ohata, Ryu, Yamashita, Atsushi, Asama, Hajime, Imamizu, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7598912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32917795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0258-20.2020
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Sumario:The self is a distinct entity from the rest of the world, and actions and sensory feedback are our channels of interaction with the external world. This study examined how the sense of control influences people’s perception of sensorimotor input under the framework of categorical perception. Twenty human participants (18 males, two females) took part in both experiments. Experiment 1 showed that the sensitivity (d′) of detecting a 20% change in control from no change was higher when the changes occurred at the control-category boundary than within each category. Experiment 2 showed that the control categories greatly affected early attention allocation, even when the judgment of control was unnecessary to the task. Taken together, these results showed that our perceptual and cognitive systems are highly sensitive to small changes in control that build up to a determinant change in the control category within a relatively narrow boundary zone between categories, compared with a continuous, gradual physical change in control.