Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A Bayesian psychophysics model of sense of agency

  • Roberto Legaspi,
  • Taro Toyoizumi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12170-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the experience that one's own actions caused an external event. Here, the authors present a model of SoA in terms of optimal Bayesian cue integration taking into account reliability of action and outcome sensory signals and judging if the action caused the outcome.