Feeling in Control: The Role of Cardiac Timing in the Sense of Agency.

ABSTRACT: The sense of agency describes the experience of controlling one's body to cause desired effects in the world. We explored whether this is influenced by interoceptive processes. Specifically, we investigated whether the sense of agency changes depending on where, in the cardiac cycle (systole or diastole), the action was executed and where the outcome of the action occurred. In two experiments, participants completed decision-making task to win/lose money. Explicit (ratings of control) and implicit (temporal judgement) measures of agency were differentially affected by cardiovascular state. Implicit agency scores were affected by the cardiac phase at the point of action execution. Explicit ratings of control were affected by the type of (free vs. instructed) and by outcome valence (win vs.

SUBMITTER: Herman AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature