Investigating the sense of agency and its relation to subclinical traits using a novel task.

ABSTRACT: Tasks measuring the sense of agency often manipulate the predictability of action outcomes by introducing spatial deviation. However, the extent to which spatial predictability of an outcome influences the sense of agency when spatial deviation is controlled for remains untested. We used a novel task to investigate the effect of several factors (action-outcome contingency, spatial deviation, and spatial predictability when controlling for spatial deviation of action outcomes) on the sense of agency. We also investigated trait predictors of metacognition of agency-the degree to which participants' confidence in their agency judgements corresponds to the accuracy of those judgements. Initial and replication samples completed contingency, deviation, and predictability versions of the task. Ac

SUBMITTER: Penton T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038858 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature