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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Human Agency Studies

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  • Metacognition, the ability to reflect on one's own cognitive states, is crucial for understanding agency.
  • Agency, the sense of controlling one's actions and their outcomes, is informed by movement and outcome information.
  • Distinguishing between bodily and external agency is essential for a comprehensive understanding of self-perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how movement and outcome information influence metacognitive representations of agency.
  • To explore the distinct contributions of visual movement and proximal outcome data to the sense of agency.
  • To examine the neurophysiological correlates of agency using electroencephalography (EEG).

Main Methods:

  • Participants (N=40) engaged in a semivirtual ball-throwing task with manipulated movement or outcome information.
  • Metacognitive efficiency and confidence were measured using an agency discrimination task.
  • Electrophysiological data (EEG) were analyzed using mass linear mixed-effect modeling.

Main Results:

  • No significant mean differences in metacognitive efficiency were found between movement and outcome conditions.
  • Exploratory analyses revealed no correlation in metacognitive sensitivity between the two conditions.
  • Distinct differences in EEG signals were observed between the movement and outcome conditions during the agency task.

Conclusions:

  • Both movement and outcome information contribute to the sense of agency but may rely on separate cognitive processes.
  • The findings suggest distinct neurophysiological mechanisms underlying bodily versus external agency.
  • Further research is needed to elucidate the neural differences associated with these distinct forms of agency.