Implicit and explicit sense of agency in individuals with obsessive-compulsive tendencies

These findings suggest that while implicit, sensorimotor aspects of SoA remain intact in individuals with OC tendencies, alterations emerge at the explicit, cognitive reflective level. This dissociation may reflect compensatory control processes or cognitive biases rather than primary deficits in action-outcome processing. Our findings underscore the need for further research in clinical OCD populations to disentangle the effects of OC symptom severity and subtype on SoA. These insights contribute to a nuanced understanding of agency distortions in compulsive behavior.