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Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing
Acting in the world is accompanied by a sense of agency, or experience of control over our actions and their outcomes. As humans, we can report on this experience through judgments of agency. These judgments often occur under noisy conditions. We examined the computations underlying judgments of age...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35049503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72356 |
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author | Constant, Marika Salomon, Roy Filevich, Elisa |
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description | Acting in the world is accompanied by a sense of agency, or experience of control over our actions and their outcomes. As humans, we can report on this experience through judgments of agency. These judgments often occur under noisy conditions. We examined the computations underlying judgments of agency, in particular under the influence of sensory noise. Building on previous literature, we studied whether judgments of agency incorporate uncertainty in the same way that confidence judgments do, which would imply that the former share computational mechanisms with metacognitive judgments. In two tasks, participants rated agency, or confidence in a decision about their agency, over a virtual hand that tracked their movements, either synchronously or with a delay and either under high or low noise. We compared the predictions of two computational models to participants’ ratings and found that agency ratings, unlike confidence, were best explained by a model involving no estimates of sensory noise. We propose that agency judgments reflect first-order measures of the internal signal, without involving metacognitive computations, challenging the assumed link between the two cognitive processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-88207312022-02-09 Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing Constant, Marika Salomon, Roy Filevich, Elisa eLife Neuroscience Acting in the world is accompanied by a sense of agency, or experience of control over our actions and their outcomes. As humans, we can report on this experience through judgments of agency. These judgments often occur under noisy conditions. We examined the computations underlying judgments of agency, in particular under the influence of sensory noise. Building on previous literature, we studied whether judgments of agency incorporate uncertainty in the same way that confidence judgments do, which would imply that the former share computational mechanisms with metacognitive judgments. In two tasks, participants rated agency, or confidence in a decision about their agency, over a virtual hand that tracked their movements, either synchronously or with a delay and either under high or low noise. We compared the predictions of two computational models to participants’ ratings and found that agency ratings, unlike confidence, were best explained by a model involving no estimates of sensory noise. We propose that agency judgments reflect first-order measures of the internal signal, without involving metacognitive computations, challenging the assumed link between the two cognitive processes. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8820731/ /pubmed/35049503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72356 Text en © 2022, Constant et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Constant, Marika Salomon, Roy Filevich, Elisa Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title | Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title_full | Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title_fullStr | Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title_full_unstemmed | Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title_short | Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
title_sort | judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35049503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72356 |
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