AUTHOR=Minohara Rin , Wen Wen , Hamasaki Shunsuke , Maeda Takaki , Kato Motoichiro , Yamakawa Hiroshi , Yamashita Atsushi , Asama Hajime 

TITLE=Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01165

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling of controlling one’s own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one’s actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on SoA. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution task as an explicit measure of SoA. The results indicate that strength of intentional effort enhanced self-attribution when action-effect congruency was unreliable. We concluded that intentional effort importantly affects the integration of multiple cues affecting explicit judgments of agency when the causal relationship action and effect was unreliable.</p>