Affective Grounding of Sense of Agency and Action Regulation (AffAct)

代理感和行动调节的情感基础（AffAct）

• 批准号: 467016459
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Simone Schütz-Bosbach
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/467016459?language=en
• 关键词: Affective; Grounding; Sense; Agency; Action

To reach our goals we need to be able to tell whether our actions can successfully influence our environment. Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one’s actions and their effects. The experience of agency is vital for self-determined behavior. It is a key aspect of the minimal self-representation in humans, of the human self, which the DFG Priority Program „Active Self” seeks to investigate. Agency is most important when we try to reach desirable states or avoid negative consequences. For example, we often rely on positive and negative feedback to infer if we can successfully control our environment. Therefore, sense of agency is assumed to be bound to the affective processing of action outcomes. However, most previous research projects investigated sensory or cognitive determinants of agency experience without any affective value. As a result, it is still not clear in how far the affective valence of action effects plays a functional role for sense of agency. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork for a scientific model which can predict how agency experience and affective processing influence each other, and in how far this impacts self-determined behavior. Based on our previous work on sense of agency, affective processing, and action regulation we will investigate a) how the sense of agency modulates the processing of affective feedback, b) how agency-related changes in affective processing influence our ability to self-regulate behavior, and c) under which circumstances affective information determines the emergence of agency experience. Our project will combine EEG measurements of neural processes related to affective and sensory processing with experimental manipulations of agency experience and action regulation. In this way we aim to contribute to the DFG Priority Program “The Active Self”, by elucidating affective processing as one potential core mechanism underlying the sense of self during goal-directed actions.

为了实现我们的目标，我们需要能够判断我们的行动是否能够成功地影响我们的环境。代理感是一种能够控制自己的行为及其效果的感觉。代理的经验对于自我决定的行为至关重要。这是人类自我的最低限度自我表征的一个关键方面，DFG优先计划“主动自我”试图对此进行研究。当我们试图达到理想的状态或避免负面后果时，代理是最重要的。例如，我们经常依靠积极和消极的反馈来推断我们是否能够成功地控制我们的环境。因此，代理感被认为与行动结果的情感加工有关。然而，以前的大多数研究项目都是研究代理经验的感觉或认知决定因素，而没有任何情感价值。因此，行动效应的情感效价在多大程度上对代理感起作用还不清楚。这个项目的目标是为一个科学模型奠定基础，该模型可以预测代理经验和情感处理如何相互影响，以及这种影响对自我决定行为的影响程度。基于我们以前对代理感、情感加工和行为调节的研究，我们将考察a)代理感如何调节情感反馈的加工，b)情感加工中与代理相关的变化如何影响我们自我调节行为的能力，以及c)在什么情况下情感信息决定了代理经验的出现。我们的项目将把与情感和感觉处理相关的神经过程的脑电测量与机构经验和行动调节的实验操作结合起来。通过这种方式，我们的目标是通过阐明情感加工作为目标导向行动中潜在的自我意识的一种潜在的核心机制，为DFG优先计划“积极的自我”做出贡献。