Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity
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| Title: | Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity |
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| Authors: | Tommaso Bertoni, Jean-Paul Noel, Marcia Bockbrader, Carolina Foglia, Sam Colachis, Bastien Orset, Nathan Evans, Bruno Herbelin, Ali Rezai, Stefano Panzeri, Cristina Becchio, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino |
| Source: | Nat Commun Nature Communications, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2025) Nature communications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 3594 |
| Publisher Information: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | Male, Adult, Science, Movement, Motor Cortex, Humans, Motor Cortex/physiology, Female, Electroencephalography, Young Adult, Movement/physiology, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Alpha Rhythm/physiology, Hand/physiology, Sense of Agency, Hand, Article, Alpha Rhythm |
| Description: | Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are still not fully understood. We hypothesized that oscillations in the theta-alpha range, thought to orchestrate long-range neural connectivity, may mediate sensorimotor comparisons. To test this, we manipulated the relation between intentions and actions in a tetraplegic user of a brain machine interface (BMI), decoding primary motor cortex (M1) activity to restore hand functionality. We found that the pre-movement phase of low-alpha oscillations in M1 predicted the participant’s agency judgements. Further, using EEG-BMI in healthy participants, we found that pre-movement alpha oscillations in M1 and supplementary motor area (SMA) correlated with agency ratings, and with changes in their functional connectivity with parietal, temporal and prefrontal areas. These findings argue for phase-driven gating as a key mechanism for sensorimotor integration and sense of agency. |
| Document Type: | Article Other literature type |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-025-58683-9 |
| Access URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40234393 https://doaj.org/article/836a535bc7c84ae6a187a465a2d5322c https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_0BDF120E63D9 https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_0BDF120E63D9.P001/REF.pdf http://nbn-resolving.org/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_0BDF120E63D93 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1b0e51cde424f299519b51a41f582215 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are still not fully understood. We hypothesized that oscillations in the theta-alpha range, thought to orchestrate long-range neural connectivity, may mediate sensorimotor comparisons. To test this, we manipulated the relation between intentions and actions in a tetraplegic user of a brain machine interface (BMI), decoding primary motor cortex (M1) activity to restore hand functionality. We found that the pre-movement phase of low-alpha oscillations in M1 predicted the participant’s agency judgements. Further, using EEG-BMI in healthy participants, we found that pre-movement alpha oscillations in M1 and supplementary motor area (SMA) correlated with agency ratings, and with changes in their functional connectivity with parietal, temporal and prefrontal areas. These findings argue for phase-driven gating as a key mechanism for sensorimotor integration and sense of agency. |
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| ISSN: | 20411723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-025-58683-9 |