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Subjects performed a visual forced-choice response task in which action effects were either caused by the subject or by the computer. In addition, to modulate the conscious experience of agency, action effects were subliminally primed by the presentation of congruent, incongruent, or neutral effect stimuli before the action. First, we observed sensorimotor attenuation in the visual ERP selectively for self-generated action effects. That is, the N1 component, a negative deflection around 100 msec after a visual stimulus, was smaller in amplitude for visual effects caused by the subject as compared with effects caused by the computer. Second, congruent effect priming enhanced the explicit judgment of agency and further reduced the N1 amplitude for self-generated effects, although effect primes were not consciously processed. Taken together, these results provide evidence of a top\u2013down modulation of sensory processing of action effects by prior effect information and support the neurophysiological mechanism of sensorimotor attenuation as underlying self-registration in action. Our findings suggest that both efferent information and prior thoughts about the action consequence provide important cues for a prereflective form of the experience of being an agent.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1162\/jocn_a_00012","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,31]],"date-time":"2011-03-31T13:27:41Z","timestamp":1301578061000},"page":"3817-3828","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/mitpressjournals.corrections.policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":119,"title":["I Did It: Unconscious Expectation of Sensory Consequences Modulates the Experience of Self-agency and Its Functional Signature"],"prefix":"10.1162","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Antje","family":"Gentsch","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin"}]},{"given":"Simone","family":"Sch\u00fctz-Bosbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 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