Free Will and Agency

Real-time intracortical decoding from human motor cortex reveals a task-independent commitment to act that aligns with conscious intent

This study decodes motor cortex activity in real-time to predict movement onset before action, showing a task-independent commitment to act that aligns with conscious intent.

A Unified Neurocomputational Framework for Closed-Loop Motor Control and Sense of Agency

The paper proposes a unified neurocomputational framework linking sense of agency and closed-loop motor control through a Bayesian model of self-causation probability.

Neural correlates of the subjective experience of free-will during value-based risky decisions: a pilot study

This study investigates the neural correlates of the subjective experience of free-will during value-based risky decisions using fMRI and self-reports, identifying brain regions associated with this experience.

Domain-general computational integration in the Sense of Agency

The paper investigates how prediction errors from different sensorimotor domains are integrated in the sense of agency using computational models.

Integration of "what" and "when" predictions during action-effect processing

The paper investigates how predictions about action choice and timing are processed during action-effect learning, finding they interact in sensory processing and are evaluated cumulatively later.

Automation Disrupts, Explanations Restore: The Neural Signatures of Agency Loss and Recovery in Human-AI Interaction

This study investigates how automation and AI explanations affect the sense of agency using EEG, finding that multi-level explanations restore agency through specific neural markers.

Neural mechanisms of awareness of action

This study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying awareness of action by comparing aware and unaware actions, identifying both immediate and long-term neural correlates.

Investigating Effects of Outcome Controllability and Error Attribution on Proactive Attentional Control: Insights from EEG and Cognitive Modelling

The paper investigates how outcome controllability and error attribution affect proactive attentional control using EEG and cognitive modeling, finding differences in response times and neural oscillations between self and system error attributions.

Spatial distance and temporal attentional focus modulate voluntary action preparation and awareness

This study examines how spatial proximity, attentional focus, and anticipated action outcomes influence motor preparation and action awareness using EEG and virtual reality.

Expectations and Motor Signals Shape Auditory Evoked Responses in an Independent Manner

The paper shows that sensory attenuation occurs even without prior expectation, suggesting it is not driven by learning but by motor signals.

Pre-movement respiration-action coupling is specific to self-initiated action: Evidence for action alignment with ongoing breathing

This study shows that pre-movement respiration-action coupling occurs only during self-initiated actions, indicating action timing aligns with ongoing breathing rhythms.

Interplay of action-based prediction and top-down attention: EEG evidence for joint modulation of late perceptual processing

The paper investigates how action-based prediction and top-down attention interact in perceptual processing using EEG, finding reduced P3b amplitude and latency for task-relevant predicted stimuli.

Bayesian Integration in Sense of Agency: Understanding Self-attribution and Individual Differences

This study develops a Bayesian integration model to analyze individual differences in the sense of agency, showing that people vary in how they weigh sensory cues when judging control over actions.

Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions

This study examines neural processes during voluntary decisions, finding evidence accumulation and motor preparation dynamics similar to perceptual decisions.

The sense of agency in near and far space: where do we stand?

The paper reassesses evidence on whether spatial distance affects the sense of agency, finding no distance effect and suggesting distance influences temporal perception independently of agency.

Neurodynamics of prefrontal areas in volitional contexts: a comparative study based on computational modelling and EEG/ERP data

This study uses computational modeling and EEG/ERP data to compare neural dynamics of self-initiated and externally triggered actions, finding distinct preparatory patterns in prefrontal areas.

The respiratory phase causally modulates the readiness potential amplitude

This study shows that respiratory phase causally affects readiness potential amplitude without altering action timing.

Punishing temporal judgement boosts sense of agency and modulates its underlying neural correlates

This study shows punishment reinforcement increases sense of agency and related neural activity more than reward, by enhancing attention and arousal.

Voluntary movement initiation is associated with cardiac input in Libet's task.

This study investigates how cardiac signals influence the perception of motor intention during Libet's task, finding that movement initiation aligns with the diastolic phase of the cardiac cycle.

Overlapping Cortical Substrate of Biomechanical Control and Subjective Agency

This study decodes subjective agency from brain regions involved in biomechanical control using fMRI and deep neural networks.

Unconscious Neural Activity Predicts Overt Attention in Visual Search

This study predicts the direction of the first saccade in visual search using EEG, finding broadband activity predicts it up to two seconds before the array onset, suggesting mechanisms similar to willed motor actions.

Microsaccades do not give rise to a conscious feeling of agency for their sensorimotor consequences in visual perception.

This paper investigates whether microsaccades, small eye movements, are associated with a feeling of agency, finding no temporal binding between microsaccades and their sensory consequences.

Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential does not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation

This study investigates the neural basis of the Readiness Potential (RP) and finds it does not reflect awareness of motor preparation, suggesting metacognitive access to stochastic accumulation instead.

How does immediate auditory feedback coupled to locomotion influence the spontaneous actions of rats?

This study investigates how auditory feedback linked to locomotion affects rats' spontaneous movement, finding increased locomotion distance when feedback matches movement velocity, but the effect is short-lived.

Voluntary action sharpens sensory prediction and facilitates neural processing of contingent sensory stimuli

The paper investigates how voluntary action affects sensory prediction and neural processing of subsequent stimuli, finding enhanced predictive processes during active movements.

The Body Knows Better: Sensorimotor signals reveal "Suboptimal" inference of the Sense of Agency in the human mind

This study uses machine learning to show that implicit sensorimotor kinematics better predict sense of agency judgments than explicit participant reports.

Dissociation of movement and outcome representations in metacognition of agency

This study investigates how movement and outcome information contribute to metacognitive representations of agency, finding they operate through distinct mechanisms despite equal contribution to the sense of agency.

Neural Correlates of the Embodied Sense of Agency

This study uses EEG and MVPA to identify neural correlates of the sense of agency, finding alpha and theta band changes linked to reduced agency and decoding of sensorimotor conflicts.

Contributions of tactile information to the sense of agency and its metacognitive representations

The paper investigates how tactile information contributes to the sense of agency and metacognitive representations, finding that tactile mismatches affect agency similarly to spatial and temporal mismatches.

Disturbance of the Sense of Agency in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Modulation by Social Context

This study investigates how OCD patients perceive self-action in virtual reality, finding they rely more on visual feedback and show altered response to social context.