The role of self-related information in the sense of agency

Guanhua Huang; Xun Jia; Yuanmeng Zhang; Ke Zhao; Xiaolan Fu

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2024.103671

The role of self-related information in the sense of agency

Conscious Cogn. 2024 Mar:119:103671. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103671. Epub 2024 Feb 28.

Authors

Guanhua Huang¹, Xun Jia¹, Yuanmeng Zhang², Ke Zhao³, Xiaolan Fu¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
² University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley 94720, United States.
³ State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. Electronic address: zhaok@psych.ac.cn.

PMID: 38422758
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103671

Abstract

Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the subjective experience of controlling one's actions and their subsequent consequences. The present study endeavors to investigate the impact of how different degrees of self-related stimuli as action outcomes on the sense of agency by observing the temporal binding effect. Results showed that self-related sound significantly altered temporal binding, notably influencing outcome binding. A post-hoc explanation model effectively elucidated the role of self-related information in the formation of the sense of agency.

Keywords: Self-related information; Sense of agency; Temporal binding.