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Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing

View ORCID ProfileMarika Constant, View ORCID ProfileRoy Salomon, View ORCID ProfileElisa Filevich
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.28.441761
Marika Constant
aHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
bBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
cBerlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Roy Salomon
dGonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Elisa Filevich
aHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
bBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
cBerlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany
eCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

Judgments of agency, our sense of control over our actions and the environment, are often assumed to be metacognitive. We examined this assumption at the computational level by comparing the effects of sensory noise on agency judgments to those on confidence judgements, which are widely accepted to be metacognitive in nature. In two tasks, participants rated agency, or confidence in a decision about their agency, over a virtual hand that tracked their movements, either synchronously or with a delay, under high and low noise. We compared the predictions of two computational models to participants’ ratings and found that agency ratings, unlike confidence, were best explained by a model involving no metacognitive noise estimates. We propose that agency judgments reflect first-order measures of the internal signal, without involving metacognitive computations, challenging the assumed link between the two cognitive processes.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • https://gitlab.com/MarikaConstant/metaAgency

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Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing
Marika Constant, Roy Salomon, Elisa Filevich
bioRxiv 2021.04.28.441761; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.28.441761
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Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing
Marika Constant, Roy Salomon, Elisa Filevich
bioRxiv 2021.04.28.441761; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.28.441761

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