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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Comparative Psychology

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  • Self-agency, crucial for self-recognition and awareness, arises from integrating thoughts, actions, and outcomes.
  • Understanding self-agency provides insights into consciousness and decision-making processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the sense of self-agency in humans and rhesus macaques.
  • To compare cross-species abilities in identifying self-controlled actions.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted involving humans and rhesus macaques.
  • Participants identified a self-controlled cursor among distractors using visual cues.
  • Task variations included different distractor types and movement patterns.

Main Results:

  • Both humans and macaques successfully identified the self-controlled cursor.
  • Macaques showed enhanced performance when distractor cursors moved in the opposite direction.
  • Decision-making in both species involved integrating perceptual and self-agency cues.

Conclusions:

  • The sense of self-agency is conserved across humans and macaques.
  • Cross-species comparison reveals shared mechanisms in action monitoring and decision-making.
  • Findings contribute to understanding the evolution of self-awareness.