Diminished Agency: Attenuating a Sense of Agency for Problem Finding on Personal Physical Performance

A feeling that “I controlling this” is called as the sense of agency (SA). Recently, there have been many studies for improving motor skill through making perception that the passive bodily movement caused by observation of the other’s movement or a machine operation as active movement. However, these methods cannot impress the problems of self-motion. In this regard, we hypothesize that observation of himself/herself from third-party’s point of view and improving skill of finding problem of self-motion is possible when self-motion is perceived as an other person’s motion based on mechanism of SA. In this paper, we propose “Diminished agency” to attenuate SA from observing self-motion for the finding problem involved motor-skill based on the findings a sense of ownership (SO) influences SA. This paper summarizes finding mechanism of SA and discusses the feasibility of “Diminished agency.”