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2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Multilayer model of sense of agency

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21500258
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionUniversity of Toyama

Principal Investigator

SATO Atsushi  富山大学, 人間発達科学部, 教授 (00422626)

Project Period (FY) 2009 – 2011
Keywordsエージェンシー感 / 実験系心理学 / 社会神経科学 / 自己 / 認知科学
Research Abstract

The sense of agency is the sense that one is causing an action. A predictive account of the sense of agency proposes that sensory prediction based on efferent(motor) information plays a critical role in generating the sense of agency. An alternative hypothesis emphasizes a critical role for post-hoc inferential process in generating the sense of agency. According to this account, we experience the sense of agency when a thought appears in consciousness prior to an action, is consistent with the action, and is not accompanied by conspicuous other causes of the action. In this study, we divided the sense of agency into two layers ; non-conceptual and pre-reflective feeling of agency at the most basic level and conceptual and reflective judgment of agency at the more elaborated level. The results showed that sensory prediction rather than conceptual congruency between preview and action-effect contributed to the feeling of agency which was measured by sensory attenuation, whereas both processes contributed to the judgment of agency. Further experiments revealed that conceptual congruency received relatively higher weighting to judgment of agency when reliable forward model was not formed, whereas other cues of agency than sensory prediction received lower weighting when forward model could provide highly reliable cue. These results suggest that the judgment of agency is produced by weighting each source of information according to its reliability.

  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2012 2011 2010 2009

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results) Presentation (1 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 何が自己を自己たらしめるか?-運動主体感の研究から2011

    • Author(s)
      佐藤徳
    • Journal Title

      認知科学

      Volume: 18 Pages: 29-40

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Decreased response inhibition in middle-aged male patients with type 2 diabetes2010

    • Author(s)
      Ishizawa, K. T., Kumano, H., Sato, A., Sakura, H., & Iwamoto, Y.
    • Journal Title

      BioPsychoSocial Medicine

      Volume: 4, 1 Pages: 10

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Role of Gamma Band Oscillations and Synchrony on Rubber Hand Illusion and Crossmodal Integration2009

    • Author(s)
      Kanayama, N., Sato, A., & Ohira, H.
    • Journal Title

      Brain and Cognition

      Volume: 69 Pages: 19-29

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Both motor prediction and conceptual congruency between preview and action-effect contribute to explicit judgment of agency2009

    • Author(s)
      Sato, A.
    • Journal Title

      Cognition

      Volume: 110 Pages: 74-83

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 統合失調症におけるリアリティモニタリングの異常2009

    • Author(s)
      佐藤徳
    • Journal Title

      現代のエスプリ

      Volume: 497 Pages: 152-163

  • [Presentation] エージェンシー判断における手掛かりの統合2011

    • Author(s)
      佐藤徳
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会
    • Place of Presentation
      日本大学(東京都)
    • Year and Date
      2011-09-17
  • [Book] 3-1認知心理学における自己論の流れジェームズマーカスヒギンズギャラガーフリスブランケウェグナー2012

    • Author(s)
      梶田叡一・溝上慎一
    • Total Pages
      80-96
    • Publisher
      自己の心理学を学ぶ人のために
  • [Book] 第2章私のような他者/私とは異なる他者-間主観性の認知神経科学2011

    • Author(s)
      子安増生・大平英樹
    • Total Pages
      59-102
    • Publisher
      新曜社
  • [Book] 第12章身体化された自己から言語制作される自己へ2010

    • Author(s)
      中村靖子・大平英樹・畝部俊也・佐藤徳・吉武純夫・兼本浩祐・柴田正良・余語真夫・H・M・シュラルプ・飯高哲也・葉柳和則・今福龍太
    • Total Pages
      37-66
    • Publisher
      松籟社

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Published: 2013-07-31  

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