| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
When a man does some actions, she/he usually feels that she/he is an agent for doing the action, which is called a sense of agency. This study examined how the sense of agency influences visual attention. In concrete, this study investigate, when an observer controls an object apart from her/his body with feeling the agency, whether visual attentional allocation could be biased based on the movement of the object. The experimental results showed that attention tends to orient the location where the controlled object moved. Further, the results showed that this attentional bias requires two factors: first, the observer’s intention and actual action of controlling the object, and second, the outcome of the object moving as intended. In summary, this study suggests that even if an object is separated from the observer’s body, the object’s movement attracts attention when she/he feels a strong sense of agency over its control.
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