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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Motor Control
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Movement control involves complex neural processes often outside conscious awareness.
  • Sense of agency (SoA) is the subjective experience of controlling one's actions.
  • The neural basis of SoA and its relation to motor control representations remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the brain structures involved in motor control planning also underpin the sense of agency.
  • To explore the relationship between neural representations of movement control and subjective awareness of agency.

Main Methods:

  • Correlated human fMRI data during hand movements with deep neural network (DNN) models of biomechanical control.
  • Manipulated sense of agency using functional electrical stimulation (FES) of participant muscles.
  • Utilized machine learning to decode SoA from brain activity and identify neural correlates of motor control.

Main Results:

  • Identified specific cortical areas, including visual regions, encoding sensorimotor states relevant to inverse dynamics.
  • Found that these same brain regions predicted the sense of agency.
  • Demonstrated robust model-brain correspondences and SoA decoding within individual subjects.

Conclusions:

  • Neural representations underlying motor control planning, particularly inverse dynamics, are linked to the sense of agency.
  • Subjective awareness of movement control can be decoded from brain activity in sensorimotor and visual areas.
  • Individual-level analysis enables detailed study of the relationship between motor representations and conscious awareness.