Subjective efficacy: integrating body and mind into a model of voluntary initiation of bodily movement
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22K00007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
Grueneberg P. 金沢大学, GS教育系, 准教授 (00757718)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2027-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2026: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Keywords | agency / gait initiation / performance / motor control / intentionality / movement / body and mind / volition |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Voluntary initiation is the ability to initiate movement of our body and is one of the essential features of human agency. However, the prevailing body-mind dichotomy and reductive approaches in philosophy and cognitive sciences do not explain the subjective efficacy of voluntary intiation to act upon the world. This research aims at an integrative model of subjective efficacy that will inform a systematically grounded theory of voluntary initiation and an algorithmically implementable model that guides experimental and clinical work in the cognitive sciences and rehabilitation robotics.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Phase A: Analyzing self-controlled initiation of forward gait
- Abductive performance: Together with A. Bertinetto, the notion of improvisation as an abductive performance has been developed. This notion provides a conceptual foundation for understanding self-controlled initiation of bodily movement.
- Reconsidering the phenomenology of gait initiation, the concept of "performative intentionality" has been developed. Husserl stresses the importance of the objectual function of intentionality; i.e. consciousness is always based on objectually given (perceptual) contents. At the same time, Husserl developed an additional performatice concept of action consciousness. Drawing on experimental evidence from gait rehabilitation, the notion of action consciousness as creating its content through bodily performance has been developed. A related paper is currently under review.
- The concept of "phenomenal biomechanics" has been presented at an international workshop of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Phase B: Conceptual-experimental loop - initiation experiment
Together with co-researchers from engineering, an experiment for measuring the impact of self-controlled (conscious) initiation on the biomechanical implementation of gait has been prepared. This includes the ethical approval (IRB), the manufacturing and testing of devices for vibrotactile stimulation to deviate the consciousness of the subjects, and test measurements to define the data analysis.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Phase A: Analyzing self-controlled initiation of forward gait
Conceptual analysis provided substantial results for defining the concept of performative intentionality as the philosophical foundation of self-controlled initiation of bodily movement.
Phase B: Conceptual-experimental loop - initiation experiment
There occured no problems during the preparations of the experimental setting.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
- Phase A: Analyzing self-controlled initiation of forward gait
Together with A. Bertinetto, define the role of habit for self-controlled initiation of bodily movement and co-author a paper; elaborate the notion of conscious efficacy regarding bodily movement; elaborate the relationship between performative intentionality and referent/synergetic control of bodily movement.
- Phase B: Conceptual-experimental loop - initiation experiment
Conduct the experiment on gait initiation, analyze data, publish results.
- Phase C: Building the integrative model of self-controlled gait initation
Elaborate Fichte's transcendental approach as a foundation for conscious motor control: "Facts of Consciousness 1810/11", "Wissenschaftslehre 1811"; elaborate the notion of "heterarchy" as the methodological foundation of performative intentionality.
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