Schreiner Marcel R, Feustel Shenna, Kunde Wilfried
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany.
Mem Cognit. 2024 Oct 9. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01644-2.
Adult humans experience agency when their action causes certain events (sense of agency). Moreover, they can later remember what these events were (memory). Here, we investigate how the relationship between actions and events shapes agency experience and memory for the corresponding events. Participants performed actions that produced stimuli that were either congruent or incongruent to the action while memory of these stimuli was probed in a recognition test. Additionally, predictability of the effect was manipulated in Experiment 1 by using either randomly interleaved or blocked ordering of action-congruent and action-incongruent events. In Experiment 2, the size of the action space was manipulated by allowing participants to choose between three or six possible responses. The results indicated a heightened sense of agency following congruent compared to incongruent trials, with this effect being increased given a larger available action space, as well as a greater sense of agency given higher predictability of the effect. Recognition memory was better for stimuli presented in congruent compared to incongruent trials, with no discernible effects of effect predictability or the size of the action space. The results point towards a joint influence of predictive and postdictive processes on agency experience and suggest a link between control and memory. The partial dissociation of influences on agency experience and memory cast doubt on a mediating role of agency experience on the relationship between action-effect congruency and memory. Theoretical accounts for this relationship are discussed.
成年人类在其行动导致某些事件发生时会体验到能动性(能动感)。此外,他们随后能够记住这些事件是什么(记忆)。在此,我们研究行动与事件之间的关系如何塑造对相应事件的能动感体验和记忆。参与者执行产生与行动相符或不符的刺激的行动,同时在识别测试中探测对这些刺激的记忆。此外,在实验1中,通过使用行动相符和行动不符事件的随机交错或分组排序来操纵效果的可预测性。在实验2中,通过让参与者在三种或六种可能的反应之间进行选择来操纵行动空间的大小。结果表明,与不符试验相比,相符试验后的能动感增强,且随着可用行动空间增大,这种效应增强,同时随着效果可预测性提高,能动感也更强。与不符试验相比,对相符试验中呈现的刺激的识别记忆更好,效果可预测性或行动空间大小没有明显影响。结果表明预测和后预测过程对能动感体验有共同影响,并表明控制与记忆之间存在联系。对能动感体验和记忆的影响的部分分离对能动感体验在行动-效果相符性与记忆关系中的中介作用提出了质疑。讨论了关于这种关系的理论解释。