I am not the cause of this pain: An experimental study of the cognitive processes underlying causal attribution in the unpredictable situation whether negative outcomes.

Objectives: Pain causal attribution is the attribution of pain causes to self or others, which may depend on one's choice of actions. The study aimed to examine how the cognitive processes of pain causal attribution as one aspect of the sense of agency change in healthy individuals based on free or forced choice, using a temporal binding (TB) experimental task.

Methods: Participants pressed keys (action) in a combined TB task, with one key having a high probability of delivering pain (with tone).

Characteristics of uneven surface walking in stroke patients: Modification in biomechanical parameters and muscle activity.

Background: Stroke patients have difficulty walking in outdoor environments, including uneven surfaces, reducing their opportunities for social participation. Changes in stroke patients' gait while walking on even surfaces have been reported; however, gait alterations on uneven surfaces remain unclear.

Research Question: To what extent do biomechanical parameters and muscle activity during even and uneven surface walking differ between stroke patients and healthy people?

Methods: Twenty stroke patients and 20 age-matched healthy people walked on a 6 m even and uneven surfaces.

Adaptability of the Sense of Agency in Healthy Young Adults in Sensorimotor Tasks for a Short Term.

Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the subjective feeling of controlling one's own actions and sensory feedback. The SoA occurs when the predicted feedback matches the actual sensory feedback and is responsible for maintaining behavioral comfort. However, sensorimotor deficits because of illness cause incongruence between prediction and feedback, so the patient loses comfort during actions.

Association Between Self-Perceived General Human-Likeness During Walking and Walking Speed in Stroke Patients: A Preliminary Study.

The difference between the walking speeds of stroke patients and the general population may influence the self-perception of patients, who perceive their walk as lacking general human-likeness. Perception toward human-likeness during walking is defined here as the feeling that one can walk as intended, just like healthy people. Such negative subjective experiences may curb their social participation.

Verbal Suggestion Modulates the Sense of Ownership and Heat Pain Threshold During the "Injured" Rubber Hand Illusion.

The appearance of the self-body influences the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself, that is, a sense of ownership (SoO) and pain perception. This can be identified by measuring the SoO and pain thresholds after performing the rubber hand illusion (RHI) with an injured rubber hand. The generation of SoO is thought to be caused by multisensory integration of bottom-up factors (vision, proprioceptive, and touch), and by top-down factors, such as the context effect.

Relationship between exercise motivation and social support in a support facility for persons with disabilities in Japan.

Purpose: Exercise motivation (EM) is related to individual capabilities and social support. However, in support facilities for people with disabilities, it is susceptible to a lack of social support. In this study, we classified EM into Autonomous Motivation (AM) and controlled motivation (CM) and then examined the influence of social support.

Goal sharing with others modulates the sense of agency and motor accuracy in social contexts.

Sense of agency (SoA), the feeling of control over one's own actions and their effects, is fundamental to goal-directed actions at the individual level and may constitute a cornerstone of everyday life, including cooperative behavior (i.e., goal sharing).

Changes of Causal Attribution by a Co-actor in Situations of Obvious Causality.

In social contexts, people are responsible for their actions and outcomes. Diffusion of responsibility is a well-known social phenomenon: people feel less responsible when performing an action with co-actors than when acting alone. In previous studies, co-actors reduced the participant's responsibility attribution by making the cause of the outcomes ambiguous.

Altered sense of agency in children with developmental coordination disorder.

Background: There is increasing evidence that children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have deficits in sensory-motor integration, but it is unclear whether the sense of agency (SoA) generated by sensory-motor integration is altered.

Aims: To investigate whether there is a difference in the time window for SoA between children with DCD and typically developing (TD) children.

Methods And Procedures: An agency attribution task was used to quantitatively measure and compare the time window for SoA in 15 children with DCD and 46 children in the TD group.

Intentional Binding Effects in the Experience of Noticing the Regularity of a Perceptual-Motor Task.

Noticing the regularity of the task is necessary to enhance motor performance. The experience of noticing further motivates improvement in motor performance. Motor control is explained by a comparator model that modifies the motor command to reduce discrepancies between sensory predictions and actual outcomes.

Changes in intentional binding effect during a novel perceptual-motor task.

Perceptual-motor learning describes the process of improving the smoothness and accuracy of movements. Intentional binding (IB) is a phenomenon whereby the length of time between performing a voluntary action and the production of a sensory outcome during perceptual-motor control is perceived as being shorter than the reality. How IB may change over the course of perceptual-motor learning, however, has not been explicitly investigated.

Brain Activity Associated with the Illusion of Motion Evoked by Different Vibration Stimulation Devices: An fNIRS Study.

[Purpose] A number of different stimulation devices are used in basic and clinical research studies, and their frequencies of use vary. However, whether or not they are equally effective has not been investigated. The purpose of the present study was to investigate neural activity in the brain during the illusion of motion evoked by stimulating the tendons of the wrist extensor muscles using various vibration devices.