The sense of agency and its role in strategic control for expert mountain bikers
Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 2 (3):340-353 (2015)
Abstract
Much work on the sense of agency has focused either on abnormal cases, such as
delusions of control, or on simple action tasks in the laboratory. Few studies address the
nature of the sense of agency in complex natural settings, or the effect of skill on the
sense of agency. Working from 2 case studies of mountain bike riding, we argue that
the sense of agency in high-skill individuals incorporates awareness of multiple causal
influences on action outcomes. This allows fine-grained differentiation of the contributions
of self and external factors to action outcomes. We further argue that the sense
of agency incorporates prospective awareness of actions that are possible in a situation
and awareness of the limits of control. These forms of sense of agency enable highly
flexible, context-sensitive strategic control, and are likely to contribute to high interindividual
variability in responses to complex tasks.
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