Having control over the external world increases the implicit sense of agency

Beck, Brianna; Di Costa, Steven; Haggard, Patrick

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.002

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Having control over the external world increases the implicit sense of agency

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Beck, Brianna, Di Costa, Steven, Haggard, Patrick·2017·Cognition

DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.002

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The sense of agency refers to the feeling of control over one's actions, and, through them, over external events. One proposed marker of implicit sense of agency is 'intentional binding'-the tendency to perceive voluntary actions and their outcomes as close in time. Another is attenuation of the sensory consequences of a voluntary action. Here we show that the ability to choose an outcome through action selection contributes to implicit sense of agency. We measured intentional binding and stimulus intensity ratings using painful and non-painful somatosensory outcomes. In one condition, participants chose between two actions with different probabilities of producing high or low intensity outcomes, so action choices were meaningful. In another condition, action selection was meaningless with respect to the outcome. Having control over the outcome increased binding, especially when outcomes were painful. Greater sensory attenuation also tended to be associated with stronger binding of the outcome towards the action that produced it. Previous studies have emphasised the link between sense of agency and initiation of voluntary motor actions. Our study shows that the ability to control outcomes by discriminative action selection is another key element of implicit sense of agency. It also investigates, for the first time, the relation between binding and sensory attenuation for the same events.

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Authors: Beck, B., Di Costa, S., & Haggard, P.
Affiliations: University College London (GB)
Corresponding author: Haggard, Patrick
ORCID: Beck, Brianna
Haggard, Patrick
Venue: Cognition
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2017-05
Volume: 162
Pages: 54-60
ISSN: 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.002
OpenAlex: W2587815713
Cited by: 104
References: 24
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 3
FWCI: 5.19
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Locations: Cognition (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders: EU (257695)
ERC Advanced Grant HUMVOL
UCL PhD demonstratorship
ESRC Professorial Fellowship (ES/J023140/1)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Keywords: sense of agency, intentional binding, sensory attenuation, action selection, outcome control, voluntary action, pain perception
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Choice Behavior, Electroshock, Female, Hot Temperature, Humans, Male, Pain, Psychomotor Performance, Time Perception, Self Efficacy, Intention, Young Adult, Pain Perception

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