Feedback of action outcome retrospectively influences sense of agency in a continuous action task

Oishi, Hideto; Watanabe, Katsumi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202690

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“…In this way, it was inferred how control during reaching may facilitate or inhibit agency of the terminating action of grasp and performance of the reach itself. Previous studies have shown the direct link of agency between continuous movements and terminal events (Wen et al, 2015;Oishi et al, 2018). In this study, we prioritized and considered implicit agency by time-interval estimation as a less biased (more sub-conscious) perceptive measure.…”

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Agency and Performance of Reach-to-Grasp With Modified Control of a Virtual Hand: Implications for Rehabilitation

Nataraj

Sanford

Shah

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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This study investigated how modified control of a virtual hand executing reach-to-grasp affects functional performance and agency (perception of control). The objective of this work was to demonstrate positive relationships between reaching performance and grasping agency and motivate greater consideration of agency in movement rehabilitation. We hypothesized that agency and performance have positive correlation across varying control modes of the virtual hand. In this study, each participant controlled motion of a virtual hand through motion of his or her own hand. Control of the virtual hand was modified according to a specific control mode. Each mode involved the virtual hand moving at a modified speed, having noise, or including a level of automation. These specific modes represent potential control features to adapt for a rehabilitation device such as a prosthetic arm and hand. In this study, significant changes in agency and performance were observed across the control modes. Overall, a significant positive relationship (p < 0.001) was observed between the primary performance metric of reach (tracking a minimum path length trajectory) and an implicit measurement of agency (intentional binding). Intentional binding was assessed through participant perceptions of time-intervals between grasp contact and a sound event. Other notable findings include improved movement efficiency (increased smoothness, reduced acceleration) during expression of higher agency and shift toward greater implicit versus explicit agency with higher control speed. Positively relating performance and agency incentivizes control adaptation of powered movement devices, such as prostheses or exoskeletons, to maximize both user engagement and functional performance. Agency-based approaches may foster user-device integration at a cognitive level and facilitate greater clinical retention of the device. Future work should identify robust and automated methods to adapt device control for increased agency. Objectives include how virtual reality (VR) may identify optimal control of real-world devices and assessing real-time agency from neurophysiological signals.

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Agency and Performance of Reach-to-Grasp With Modified Control of a Virtual Hand: Implications for Rehabilitation

Nataraj

Sanford

Shah

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Second, the participants were at times asked to tap twice in given trials, which was also not a common design to examine SoA. Most studies have adopted a design in which participants press a button once as an action (Sato & Yasuda, 2005) or many times to control objects (Oishi et al, 2018(Oishi et al, , 2019. Taken together, future studies using other illusions but with a simpler design (e.g., within a single modality or action) are necessary to support the present results and strengthen the underlying mechanism of how perception of effect-related signals influence SoA production.…”

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“…The effects can be simply a colored circle and a pure tone (e.g., Sato & Yasuda, 2005). In addition to the typical effects, some studies have used stimuli with affective valence (Wilke et al, 2012;Yoshie & Haggard, 2017), semantic feedback such as presentation of letters "success" or "failure" (Oishi et al, 2018(Oishi et al, , 2019, and fake feedback such as others' performance (Asai, 2015;Sirigu et al, 1999;Wegner et al, 2004). Operation of the effect presentation depends on contiguity, congruency, and contingency.…”

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Sense of agency with illusory visual events.

Watanabe¹

2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Sense of agency (SoA) is the subjective feeling of being in control of one’s own actions and that one’s action causes changes in external circumstances. In the present study, we investigated how percepts influenced a production of SoA when effect-related signals were illusory. For this purpose, we adopted the cross-modal double-flash illusion (DFI). In DFI, when two brief auditory stimuli (i.e., beeps) are presented in quick succession and accompanied by a single visual flash, observers tend to report two visual flashes. In the experiments, we let participants press a given button once or twice. Three stimulus conditions were used: one beep sound (inducer) with a single flash (effect; 1B1F), two beeps with two flashes (2B2F), and two beeps with one flash (DFI condition). Then, participants reported how much they thought they had caused the events (i.e., visual flashes) by their actions. Through the series of experiments, we found even illusory visual events enhanced SoA in the DFI condition. However, SoA in the DFI condition was smaller than that in the 2B2F condition. These results indicate that both the congruency between action and apparent stimulus as well as the stimulus property modulate SoA.

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“…Most studies using self-report measures found that positive compared to negative action outcomes lead to increased sense of agency. This has been shown for different types of affective stimuli such as consonant/dissonant sounds (Barlas and Obhi, 2014 ; Barlas et al, 2017 ), emotional facial expressions (Gentsch et al, 2015 ), and performance feedback in gambling tasks (Kulakova et al, 2017 ; Herman and Tsakiris, 2020 ) or motor control tasks (Oishi et al, 2018 , 2019 ; Le Bars et al, 2020 ). The finding of increased sense of agency for positive action effects has been interpreted as part of a self-serving bias in human cognition (Gentsch and Synofzik, 2014 ; Haggard, 2017 ).…”

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The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review

Kaiser¹,

Buciuman²,

Gigl³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one's actions and their perceivable effects. Most previous research identified cognitive or sensory determinants of agency experience. However, it has been proposed that sense of agency is also bound to the processing of affective information. For example, during goal-directed actions or instrumental learning we often rely on positive feedback (e.g., rewards) or negative feedback (e.g., error messages) to determine our level of control over the current task. Nevertheless, we still lack a scientific model which adequately explains the relation between affective processing and sense of agency. In this article, we review current empirical findings on how affective information modulates agency experience, and, conversely, how sense of agency changes the processing of affective action outcomes. Furthermore, we discuss in how far agency-related changes in affective processing might influence the ability to enact cognitive control and action regulation during goal-directed behavior. A preliminary model is presented for describing the interplay between sense of agency, affective processing, and action regulation. We propose that affective processing could play a role in mediating the influence between subjective sense of agency and the objective ability to regulate one's behavior. Thus, determining the interrelation between affective processing and sense of agency will help us to understand the potential mechanistic basis of agency experience, as well as its functional significance for goal-directed behavior.

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Feedback of action outcome retrospectively influences sense of agency in a continuous action task

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Agency and Performance of Reach-to-Grasp With Modified Control of a Virtual Hand: Implications for Rehabilitation

Agency and Performance of Reach-to-Grasp With Modified Control of a Virtual Hand: Implications for Rehabilitation

Sense of agency with illusory visual events.

The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review

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