We cordially invite you to the next lecture of
the BME Cognitive Seminar Series:
Date & Time: May 27, Monday, 12:00-13:00
Location: BME, XI., Egry
József utca 1., T. ép 515.
Sensory
prediction and the sense of agency during individual and
joint action
John Dewey
Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
During voluntary action, forward models in the brain pre-activate
representations of the predicted sensory consequences. These
forward models are believed to play important roles in motor
control and the sense of agency (SoA), i.e. registration that one
was the initiator or controller of the action. The majority of the
literature on sensory prediction and its relation to SoA has
focused on individual actions. By contrast, there has been
relatively little work on sensory prediction and SoA when the
sensory consequences of actions are multiply determined by several
simultaneous influences. In this talk, I will present an overview
of current theories linking SoA to sensory prediction in the
context of individual action. Then I will present some evidence
from my recent work suggesting that in the context of cooperative
joint action (e.g. controlling a moving object together with
another person), the tight relationship between sensory prediction
and SoA begins to break down. I will argue for a hierarchical
account of SoA, where SoA is determined by a combination of
low-level sensorimotor cues and successful attainment of higher
level goals.
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Attila Keresztes
Junior Research Fellow
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
Egry József u. 1, Budapest
1111, Hungary
Tel: +36 1 4633525