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  • Psychology
  • Human Agency Research

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  • Action fluency is known to increase the sense of agency (SoA).
  • The precise neural mechanisms underlying this relationship, particularly the roles of stimulus processing, response preparation, and post-response evaluation, remain unclear.
  • Intentional binding serves as an implicit measure of SoA, reflecting the perceived temporal connection between actions and their outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the specific mechanisms through which action fluency influences the sense of agency (SoA).
  • To differentiate the contributions of pre-response (stimulus processing, response preparation) and post-response mechanisms to SoA.
  • To examine the relationship between electroencephalography (EEG) measures and intentional binding during actions of varying fluency.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed actions (finger movements) that were either congruent or incongruent with visual targets.
  • Event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured to capture pre- and post-response neural activity.
  • Intentional binding was assessed by participants' temporal estimations between actions and their auditory outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Congruent actions led to a stronger intentional binding effect (greater time compression) and correlated with a late P300 component.
  • Incongruent actions showed a larger central pre-response positivity, indicative of interference during action selection.
  • Post-response activity revealed a larger central negativity for incongruent responses, suggesting heightened uncertainty.

Conclusions:

  • Both pre- and post-response neural mechanisms are critical for generating the sense of agency, influenced by action fluency.
  • Specific ERP components (P300, pre-response positivity, post-response negativity) are differentially modulated by action congruency.
  • Findings highlight the interplay between stimulus processing, response preparation, and post-response evaluation in shaping subjective experiences of agency.