Atypical implicit and explicit sense of agency in autism: A complete characterization using the cue integration approach
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Autistic adults show altered sense of agency (SoA), impacting both implicit and explicit experiences of causing actions. This study reveals atypical integration between these agency levels in autism.
Area Of Science
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Autism Research
Background
- Sense of agency (SoA) involves the subjective experience of being the cause of one's actions and their outcomes.
- Previous research suggests SoA may be altered in autism, but a comprehensive investigation of implicit and explicit SoA integration is lacking.
Purpose Of The Study
- To fully characterize SoA functioning in autistic adults by examining the integration of implicit and explicit agency.
- To compare SoA mechanisms in autistic versus neurotypical adults.
Main Methods
- Utilized intentional binding and judgments of agency to assess implicit and explicit SoA in pinching movements.
- Manipulated sensorimotor and contextual cues through feedback alteration and induced beliefs about action outcomes.
- Compared age- and IQ-matched groups of autistic and neurotypical adults.
Main Results
- Autistic adults exhibited an abolished intentional binding effect, indicating altered implicit SoA with greater inter-individual variability.
- Explicit SoA in autistic individuals showed an under-reliance on retrospective sensorimotor cues.
- The dynamic interplay between implicit and explicit SoA was atypical in the autism group compared to neurotypicals.
Conclusions
- Both implicit and explicit levels of sense of agency are atypical in autism.
- The integration and dynamic relationship between implicit and explicit SoA are also altered in autistic adults.
- These findings provide a comprehensive characterization of SoA atypicalities in autism.
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