How the effects of actions become our own

Zapparoli, Laura; Seghezzi, Silvia; Zirone, Eleonora; Guidali, Giacomo; Tettamanti, Marco; Banfi, Giuseppe; Bolognini, Nadia; Paulesu, Eraldo

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay8301

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“…fMRI scans were performed during the execution of a temporal-judgement task (see Fig. 1 , see also Zapparoli et al , 2020 ). There were active and passive conditions.…”

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“…The sense of agency has recently been associated with the planning premotor phase of action generation ( Kühn et al , 2013 ; Zapparoli et al , 2020 ; Seghezzi and Zapparoli, 2020 ). It has been suggested that the arising of the sense of agency may be contingent on the generation of a forward model, a mechanism whereby we estimate the next motor state and the sensory consequences of any planned movement (see Kim et al , 2019 for a discussion of these concepts in the context of GTS).…”

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“…Moreover, as much as our everyday experiences of agency do not necessarily involve explicit judgements, we regularly experience a flow between the actions that we plan and their external effects. Thus, we have an implicit feeling of agency, not based on explicit judgements ( Kühn et al , 2013 ), that maps into the physiology of premotor planning ( Zapparoli et al , 2020 ).…”

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“…A suitable measure is the ‘intentional binding effect’, whereby the temporal interval between voluntary actions and their consequences is perceived to be shorter than its real duration in comparison with the same effects when passively generated ( Haggard et al , 2002 ). As GTS is frequently associated with abnormal activations of brain regions typically involved in motor control (see, for example, Zapparoli et al , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 ; Polyanska et al , 2017 ), and because the normal intentional binding maps into the premotor network ( Zapparoli et al , 2020 ), we hypothesized that an experiment based on the intentional binding phenomenon could reveal an abnormal implicit agency experience in GTS. This abnormality would map into the physiology of the premotor circuitry.…”

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“…To this end, we studied adult GTS patients and matched healthy controls (HC) by adopting as an implicit measure of agency the intentional binding phenomenon. We took advantage of a paradigm that we recently developed to describe the premotor–parietal correlates of the sense of agency in HC ( Zapparoli et al , 2020 ). Thus, the data of the GTS patients examined here were compared with the behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of the HC of Zapparoli et al (2020) .…”

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Altered sense of agency in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: behavioural, clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging findings

Zapparoli

Seghezzi

Devoto

et al. 2020

Brain Communications

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Current neurocognitive models of motor control postulate that accurate action monitoring is crucial for a normal experience of agency - the ability to attribute the authorship of our actions and their consequences to ourselves. Recent studies demonstrated that action monitoring is impaired in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, a movement disorder characterized by the presence of motor and vocal tics. It follows that Tourette syndrome patients may suffer of a perturbed sense of agency, the hypothesis tested in this study. To this end, we recruited 25 Tourette syndrome patients and 25 matched healthy controls in a case-control behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. As implicit index of the sense of agency, we measured the intentional binding phenomenon, i.e. the perceived temporal compression between voluntary movements and their external consequences. We found evidence of an impaired sense of agency in Tourette syndrome patients who, as a group, did not show a significant intentional binding; the more reduced was the individual intentional binding the more severe were the motor symptoms. Specific differences between the two groups were also observed in terms of brain activation patterns: in the healthy controls group, the magnitude of the intentional binding was associated with the activity of a premotor-parietal-cerebellar network; this relationship was not present in the Tourette syndrome group, suggesting an altered activation of the agency brain network for self-generated acts. We conclude that the less accurate action monitoring described in Tourette syndrome also involves the assessment of the physical consequences of actions in the outside world. We discuss that this may lead to difficulties in distinguishing external consequences produced by own actions from the ones caused by others in Tourette syndrome patients.

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“…fMRI scans were performed during the execution of a temporal-judgement task (see Fig. 1 , see also Zapparoli et al , 2020 ). There were active and passive conditions.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Altered sense of agency in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: behavioural, clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging findings

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The value of control

Reis

Pfister

Schwarz

2023

Behavioral Decision Making

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Voluntary actions are accompanied by a sense of control over this action and its effects. Forming an appropriate sense of control (or sense of agency) has widespread consequences of individual and societal relevance. Moreover, perceived control might serve as a powerful action motivator, although this critical function has been addressed scarcely so far. Thus, in two experiments (N = 101 adults for each study), we directly examined the value of control for human agents by allowing participants to choose between financial gain and situational control. Crucially, a significant share of participants chose to be in control even when this option was less financially rewarding. That is, participants had to be offered 66% (Study 1) and 34% (Study 2) of expected asset earnings as an additional reward to make them predictably waive control. In addition to the value of objective decision rights, we also measured subjectively perceived control. This is a further extension of prior research as similar levels of objective control can lead to substantially different subjective feelings of control. Hereby, we found a share of the participants to create an illusionary sense of agency in situations of little objective control. These results portray perceived control as a powerful motivator for human behavior that comes with a unique and quantifiable value for individual agents.

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Neural correlates of temporal recalibration to delayed auditory feedback of active and passive movements

Schmitter,

Kufer,

Steinsträter

et al. 2023

Human Brain Mapping

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When we perform an action, its sensory outcomes usually follow shortly after. This characteristic temporal relationship aids in distinguishing self‐ from externally generated sensory input. To preserve this ability under dynamically changing environmental conditions, our expectation of the timing between action and outcome must be able to recalibrate, for example, when the outcome is consistently delayed. Until now, it remains unclear whether this process, known as sensorimotor temporal recalibration, can be specifically attributed to recalibration of sensorimotor (action‐outcome) predictions, or whether it may be partly due to the recalibration of expectations about the intersensory (e.g., audio‐tactile) timing. Therefore, we investigated the behavioral and neural correlates of temporal recalibration and differences in sensorimotor and intersensory contexts. During fMRI, subjects were exposed to delayed or undelayed tones elicited by actively or passively generated button presses. While recalibration of the expected intersensory timing (i.e., between the tactile sensation during the button movement and the tones) can be expected to occur during both active and passive movements, recalibration of sensorimotor predictions should be limited to active movement conditions. Effects of this procedure on auditory temporal perception and the modality‐transfer to visual perception were tested in a delay detection task. Across both contexts, we found recalibration to be associated with activations in hippocampus and cerebellum. Context‐dependent differences emerged in terms of stronger behavioral recalibration effects in sensorimotor conditions and were captured by differential activation pattern in frontal cortices, cerebellum, and sensory processing regions. These findings highlight the role of the hippocampus in encoding and retrieving newly acquired temporal stimulus associations during temporal recalibration. Furthermore, recalibration‐related activations in the cerebellum may reflect the retention of multiple representations of temporal stimulus associations across both contexts. Finally, we showed that sensorimotor predictions modulate recalibration‐related processes in frontal, cerebellar, and sensory regions, which potentially account for the perceptual advantage of sensorimotor versus intersensory temporal recalibration.

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How the effects of actions become our own

Cited by 38 publications

References 60 publications

Altered sense of agency in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: behavioural, clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging findings

Altered sense of agency in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: behavioural, clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging findings

The value of control

Neural correlates of temporal recalibration to delayed auditory feedback of active and passive movements

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