The self in action effects: Selective attenuation of self-generated sounds

Weiss, Carmen; Herwig, Arvid; Schütz‐Bosbach, Simone

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.011

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“…The experience of generating actions, or self-agency, has been suggested to be linked to the internal motor signals associated with the ongoing actions. It has been proposed that the experience of perceiving actions as self-generated would be caused by the anticipation and, thus, the attenuation of the sensory consequences of such motor commands (Weiss et al, 2011). The results reported by the authors confirmed this hypothesis, as they found that participants perceived the loudness of sounds less intensive when they were self-generated than when they were generated by another person or by a software.…”

Section: Sensorimotor Simulationssupporting

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“…In particular, Wolpert and colleagues suggest that these internal models are constructed through the sensorimotor experience of the agent in the environment and used in simulation for processes, such as the attenuation of sensory sensations in Blakemore et al (2000a) and conditions as in Frith et al (2000). A similar effect has been reported by Weiss and colleagues in a study on selective attenuation of self-generated sounds (Weiss et al, 2011). The experience of generating actions, or self-agency, has been suggested to be linked to the internal motor signals associated with the ongoing actions.…”

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Exploration Behaviors, Body Representations, and Simulation Processes for the Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents

2016

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Sensorimotor control and learning are fundamental prerequisites for cognitive development in humans and animals. Evidence from behavioral sciences and neuroscience suggests that motor and brain development are strongly intertwined with the experiential process of exploration, where internal body representations are formed and maintained over time. In order to guide our movements, our brain must hold an internal model of our body and constantly monitor its configuration state. How can sensorimotor control enable the development of more complex cognitive and motor capabilities? Although a clear answer has still not been found for this question, several studies suggest that processes of mental simulation of action-perception loops are likely to be executed in our brain and are dependent on internal body representations. Therefore, the capability to re-enact sensorimotor experience might represent a key mechanism behind the implementation of higher cognitive capabilities, such as behavior recognition, arbitration and imitation, sense of agency, and self-other distinction. This work is mainly addressed to researchers in autonomous motor and mental development for artificial agents. In particular, it aims at gathering the latest developments in the studies on exploration behaviors, internal body representations, and processes of sensorimotor simulations. Relevant studies in human and animal sciences are discussed and a parallel to similar investigations in robotics is presented.

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Exploration Behaviors, Body Representations, and Simulation Processes for the Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents

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“…In fact it appears that the judgment of self-agency does affect later components such as P3a but not the N1 (Kuhn et al, 2011). Recent work has also found that auditory events caused by another agent are perceived differently, with less perceptual attenuation, than auditory events caused by the self (Weiss & Schutz-Bosbach, 2012;Weiss, Herwig, & Schutz-Bosbach, 2011). In our results, we only investigated early ERP components, indicative of the attribution of agency between movement and sensory events.…”

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Implicit Agency in Observed Actions: Evidence for N1 Suppression of Tones Caused by Self-made and Observed Actions

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ Every day we make attributions about how our actions and the actions of others cause consequences in the world around us. It is unknown whether we use the same implicit process in attributing causality when observing othersʼ actions as we do when making our own. The aim of this research was to investigate the neural processes involved in the implicit sense of agency we form between actions and effects, for both our own actions and when watching othersʼ actions. Using an interval estimation paradigm to elicit intentional binding in self-made and observed actions, we measured the EEG responses indicative of anticipatory processes before an action and the ERPs in response to the sensory consequence. We replicated our previous findings that we form a sense of implicit agency over our own and othersʼ actions. Crucially, EEG results showed that tones caused by either self-made or observed actions both resulted in suppression of the N1 component of the sensory ERP, with no difference in suppression between consequences caused by observed actions compared with self-made actions. Furthermore, this N1 suppression was greatest for tones caused by observed goal-directed actions rather than non-action or non-goal-related visual events. This suggests that top-down processes act upon the neural responses to sensory events caused by goal-directed actions in the same way for events caused by the self or those made by other agents. ■

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“…At the behavioural level, self-produced tactile stimulation is perceived as less ticklish compared with identical tactile stimulation produced by an external source 8 . In the auditory modality, when subjects compare the loudness of two identical sounds-one produced by actively pressing a button and the other perceived passivelythe sound in the active condition is reported as being less loud 9 . In contrast, proprioceptive sensation has been shown to be enhanced during self-generated movements, with fewer errors made regarding spatial hand position when hand displacement is self-generated compared with passive displacement 10 .…”

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Lateralized enhancement of auditory cortex activity and increased sensitivity to self-generated sounds

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Performing actions with auditory consequences modulates the response in auditory cortex to otherwise identical stimuli passively heard. Such modulation has been suggested to occur through a corollary discharge sent from the motor cortex during voluntary actions. However, the relationship between the effector used to generate the sound, type of modulation and changes in perceptual sensitivity are unclear. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging on healthy subjects and demonstrate bilateral enhancement in the auditory cortex to self-generated versus externally generated sounds. Furthermore, we find that this enhancement is stronger when the sound-producing hand is contralateral to the auditory cortex. At the behavioural level, binaural hearing thresholds are lower for self-generated sounds and monaural thresholds are lower for sounds triggered by the hand ipsilateral to the stimulated ear. Together with functional connectivity analysis, our results suggest that a corollary discharge sent from active motor cortex enhances activity in the auditory cortex and increases perceptual sensitivity in a lateralized manner.

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The self in action effects: Selective attenuation of self-generated sounds

Cited by 153 publications

References 70 publications

Exploration Behaviors, Body Representations, and Simulation Processes for the Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents

Exploration Behaviors, Body Representations, and Simulation Processes for the Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents

Implicit Agency in Observed Actions: Evidence for N1 Suppression of Tones Caused by Self-made and Observed Actions

Lateralized enhancement of auditory cortex activity and increased sensitivity to self-generated sounds

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