Neural correlates of implicit agency during the transition from adolescence to adulthood: An ERP study

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dc.contributor.authorAytemur A.
dc.contributor.authorLee K.-H.
dc.contributor.authorLevita L.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T08:05:54Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T08:05:54Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractSense of agency (SoA), the experience of being in control of our voluntary actions and their outcomes, is a key feature of normal human experience. Frontoparietal brain circuits associated with SoA undergo a major maturational process during adolescence. To examine whether this translates to neurodevelopmental changes in agency experience, we investigated two key neural processes associated with SoA, the activity that is leading to voluntary action (Readiness Potential) and the activity that is associated with the action outcome processing (attenuation of auditory N1 and P2 event related potentials, ERPs) in mid-adolescents (13–14), late-adolescents (18–20) and adults (25–28) while they perform an intentional binding task. In this task, participants pressed a button (action) that delivered a tone (outcome) after a small delay and reported the time of the tone using the Libet clock. This action-outcome condition alternated with a no-action condition where an identical tone was triggered by a computer. Mid-adolescents showed greater outcome binding, such that they perceived self-triggered tones as being temporally closer to their actions compared to adults. Suggesting greater agency experience over the outcomes of their voluntary actions during mid-adolescence. Consistent with this, greater levels of attenuated neural response to self-triggered auditory tones (specifically P2 attenuation) were found during mid-adolescence compared to older age groups. This enhanced attenuation decreased with age as observed in outcome binding. However, there were no age-related differences in the readiness potential leading to the voluntary action (button press) as well as in the N1 attenuation to the self-triggered tones. Notably, in mid-adolescents greater outcome binding scores were positively associated with greater P2 attenuation, and smaller negativity in the late readiness potential. These findings suggest that the greater experience of implicit agency observed during mid-adolescence may be mediated by a neural over-suppression of action outcomes (auditory P2 attenuation), and over-reliance on motor preparation (late readiness potential), which we found to become adult-like during late-adolescence. Implications for adolescent development and SoA related neurodevelopmental disorders are discussed. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107908
dc.identifier.issn00283932
dc.identifier.urihttp://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/13276
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectAged
dc.subjectEvoked Potentials
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectadolescence
dc.subjectadolescent
dc.subjectadult
dc.subjectadulthood
dc.subjectArticle
dc.subjectauditory evoked potential
dc.subjectauditory stimulation
dc.subjectcontingent negative variation
dc.subjectcontrolled study
dc.subjectevent related potential
dc.subjectexperimental behavioral test
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjecthuman experiment
dc.subjectimplicit agency
dc.subjectintentional binding task
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectmotor performance
dc.subjectnerve cell network
dc.subjectnervous system development
dc.subjectnormal human
dc.subjectself concept
dc.subjectsense of agency
dc.subjectstimulus response
dc.subjectvoluntary movement
dc.subjectaged
dc.subjectevoked response
dc.titleNeural correlates of implicit agency during the transition from adolescence to adulthood: An ERP study
dc.typeArticle

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