The sense of agency during continuous action: performance is more important than action-feedback association.

ABSTRACT: The sense of agency refers to the feeling that one is controlling events through one's own behavior. This study examined how task performance and the delay of events influence one's sense of agency during continuous action accompanied by a goal. The participants were instructed to direct a moving dot into a square as quickly as possible by pressing the left and right keys on a keyboard to control the direction in which the dot traveled. The interval between the key press and response of the dot (i.e., direction change) was manipulated to vary task difficulty. Moreover, in the assisted condition, the computer ignored participants' erroneous commands, resulting in improved task performance but a weaker association between the participants' commands and actual movements of the dot relative to

SUBMITTER: Wen W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4404253 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature