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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Self-identification via facial recognition is crucial for self-awareness.
  • Sense of agency influences perceived control over environmental actions.
  • The interplay between self-identification and agency perception requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how self-identification through facial recognition influences the perception of control via motion.
  • To explore the proposed 'exploitation mode' (belief in control) versus 'explorative mode' (lack of personal control).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a face-motion mixing paradigm with a deep generative model.
  • Participants interacted with their own face (self-face) or another person's face (other-face).
  • Facial motion was controlled by participants' movements (full control) or a mix of participant and experimenter motion (partial control).

Main Results:

  • Participants reported higher agency over the other-face but stronger self-identification with the self-face.
  • Controlling the other-face led to greater movement diversity compared to controlling the self-face.
  • Strong self-identification (self-face) increased sensitivity to sensorimotor prediction errors, reducing agency.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the exploration-exploitation theory.
  • Belief in control (self-face) leads to exploitation and heightened error sensitivity.
  • Absence of personal control (other-face) triggers exploration for efficient agency establishment.