Cavazzana Annachiara, Begliomini Chiara, Bisiacchi Patrizia Silvia
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia, 8, Padova, Italy; Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany; Gösta Ekman Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Frescati Hagväg 9A, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia, 8, Padova, Italy; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, Padova, Italy.
Conscious Cogn. 2017 Jul;52:104-114. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.016. Epub 2017 May 11.
The feeling of control over actions and their external effects is known as Sense of Agency (SoAg). People usually have a distinctive SoAg for events caused by their own actions. However, if the agent is a child or an older person, this feeling of being responsible for the consequences of an action may differ from what an adult would feel. The idea would be that children and elderly may have a reduced SoAg since their frontal lobes are developing or have started to loose their efficiency. The aim of this study was to elucidate whether the SoAg changes across lifespan, using the Intentional Binding (i.e., the temporal attraction between a voluntary action and its sensory consequence) as implicit measure. Data show that children and elderly are characterized by a reduced SoAg as compared to adults. These findings provide a fundamental step in the characterization of SoAg dynamics throughout individuals' lifetime.
对行动及其外部影响的控制感被称为行动能动性（SoAg）。人们通常对自己行为所导致的事件有着独特的行动能动性。然而，如果行为主体是儿童或老年人，这种对行动后果负责的感觉可能与成年人有所不同。一种观点认为，儿童和老年人的行动能动性可能会降低，因为他们的额叶正在发育或已开始丧失效率。本研究的目的是通过使用意向性绑定（即自愿行动与其感官后果之间的时间吸引力）作为隐性测量方法，来阐明行动能动性在整个生命周期中是否会发生变化。数据表明，与成年人相比，儿童和老年人的行动能动性有所降低。这些发现为描述个体一生中行动能动性的动态变化迈出了重要的一步。
