Actions can be identified at a range of levels, from higher level, outcome-related descriptions to lower level, movement-related descriptions. But how do these levels of identification influence the experience of control (agency) over a task? We addressed the relation between the level of action identification and agency using a hierarchical task modeled from typing. Participants memorized letter sequences and reported them by moving a cursor to targets that contained letters. To manipulate lower level (aiming) difficulty, the targets were either large or small. To manipulate higher level (memory) difficulty, the letter sequences were either constant or random within a block. We found effects of higher and lower level difficulty on agency and action identification. Moreover, we found interactive effects of higher and lower level difficulty on performance. We discuss these findings in terms of contributions to the study of agency, and some differences from the results of previous studies of action identification.

可以在一系列层次上识别行动，从较高层次的结果相关描述到较低层次的运动相关描述。但是，这些认同程度如何影响对任务的控制（代理）体验？我们使用从打字建模的分层任务来解决行动识别级别和代理之间的关系。参与者记住字母序列并通过将光标移动到包含字母的目标来报告它们。为了操纵较低级别（瞄准）的难度，目标要么大要么小。为了操纵更高级别（记忆）的难度，字母序列在一个块内是恒定的或随机的。我们发现了更高和更低的难度对代理和行动识别的影响。而且，我们发现更高和更低级别的难度对性能的交互影响。我们讨论了这些发现对代理研究的贡献，以及与先前行动识别研究结果的一些差异。