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Area of Science:

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Virtual Reality

Background:

  • Autonoetic consciousness (ANC) connects episodic memory and self-consciousness.
  • Bodily self-consciousness includes sense of agency (SoA) and body ownership (SoO).
  • The relationship between SoA/SoO and ANC remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between bodily self-consciousness (SoA/SoO) and ANC.
  • To explore how visuomotor and perspectival congruency influence this relationship.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized immersive virtual reality (VR) and motion tracking.
  • Manipulated visuomotor and perspectival congruency during virtual scene encoding.
  • Assessed ANC and SoA/SoO in 74 healthy participants.

Main Results:

  • ANC was dependent on the level of SoA experienced during encoding.
  • A positive association was found between ANC and SoA for scenes with preserved congruency.
  • This SoA-ANC coupling was not observed for SoO or control conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Provides behavioral evidence linking SoA during encoding to subsequent ANC.
  • Suggests SoA, a component of bodily self-consciousness, plays a role in the subjective reliving of past events.
  • Highlights the importance of congruent sensory-motor feedback in forming these connections.