Abstract The sense of agency is typically defined as the experience of controlling one’s own actions, and through them, changes in the external environment. It is often assumed that this experience is a single, unified construct that can be experimentally manipulated and measured in a variety of ways. In this article, we challenge this assumption. We argue that we should acknowledge four possible agency-related psychological constructs. Having a clear grasp of the possible constructs is important since experimental procedures are only able to target some but not all the possible constructs. The unacknowledged misalignment of the possible constructs of a sense of agency and the experimental procedures is a major theoretical and methodological obstacle to studying the sense of agency. Only if we recognize the nature of this obstacle will we be able to design the experimental paradigms that would enable us to study the responsible computational mechanisms.

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代理措施

摘要代理感通常定义为控制自己的行为并通过这些行为控制外部环境变化的经验。通常认为，这种经验是一个单一的，统一的结构，可以通过各种方式进行实验操作和测量。在本文中，我们对这一假设提出了挑战。我们认为，我们应该承认四种可能的与代理相关的心理构造。清楚地了解可能的构建体非常重要，因为实验程序只能针对某些而非所有可能的构建体。代理意识和实验程序的可能构造的未认识到的错位是研究代理意识的主要理论和方法障碍。