Feeling in control: Neural correlates of experience of agency
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Feeling in control: Neural correlates of experience of agency. / Kühn, Simone; Brass, Marcel; Haggard, Patrick.
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T1 - Feeling in control: Neural correlates of experience of agency
AU - Kühn, Simone
AU - Brass, Marcel
AU - Haggard, Patrick
N1 - Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2012/10/17
Y1 - 2012/10/17
N2 - The ability to control external events through our own actions is a fundamental aspect of human experience. Both the subjective experience of agency, and its neural correlates, remain poorly understood. Previous studies show that the angular gyrus is activated when participants explicitly judge that they lack agency. In contrast, the positive sense of agency over external events is associated with distortions of time perception. Here, we show that the perceived interval between actions and a subsequent tone is shorter than the perceived interval between a physically comparable passive movement and a tone, replicating the 'intentional binding' effect reported previously. We considered this as a potential implicit marker of agency, and investigated its neural basis, by using parametric analyses to identify brain areas whose activation correlated more strongly with the perceived action-tone interval in the action condition, than in the passive condition. Small volume corrections were used to test specific hypotheses about the contribution of the angular gyrus, and of the supplementary motor area (SMA), based on previous literature. We found no correlation between angular gyrus and our temporal measure of sense of agency. In contrast, we found that a lateral, caudal region within the SMA proper was more strongly associated with the perceived action-tone interval than with perception of a control interval following a passive movement. We suggest that the supplementary motor complex contributes to the subjective experience of temporal flow that accompanies goal-directed voluntary actions.
AB - The ability to control external events through our own actions is a fundamental aspect of human experience. Both the subjective experience of agency, and its neural correlates, remain poorly understood. Previous studies show that the angular gyrus is activated when participants explicitly judge that they lack agency. In contrast, the positive sense of agency over external events is associated with distortions of time perception. Here, we show that the perceived interval between actions and a subsequent tone is shorter than the perceived interval between a physically comparable passive movement and a tone, replicating the 'intentional binding' effect reported previously. We considered this as a potential implicit marker of agency, and investigated its neural basis, by using parametric analyses to identify brain areas whose activation correlated more strongly with the perceived action-tone interval in the action condition, than in the passive condition. Small volume corrections were used to test specific hypotheses about the contribution of the angular gyrus, and of the supplementary motor area (SMA), based on previous literature. We found no correlation between angular gyrus and our temporal measure of sense of agency. In contrast, we found that a lateral, caudal region within the SMA proper was more strongly associated with the perceived action-tone interval than with perception of a control interval following a passive movement. We suggest that the supplementary motor complex contributes to the subjective experience of temporal flow that accompanies goal-directed voluntary actions.
KW - Adult
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Auditory Perception
KW - Emotions
KW - Female
KW - Goals
KW - Humans
KW - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
KW - Intention
KW - Judgment
KW - Linear Models
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW - Male
KW - Motor Cortex
KW - Movement
KW - Photic Stimulation
KW - Psychomotor Performance
KW - Time Perception
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.09.002
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 23067726
VL - 49
SP - 1935
EP - 1942
JO - CORTEX
JF - CORTEX
SN - 0010-9452
IS - 7
ER -