Over the past decade, research has increasingly supported the rewarding impact of an own-action perceptual effect by demonstrating its enhancing influence on behavior and motor performance. Critically, for a perceptual effect to impact behavior, it must be recognized as an own-action effect, either through a sensorimotor computational process at a pre-conceptual level or through a higher-level cognitive process involving causal attribution and control beliefs. In this talk, I will present findings demonstrating the impact of action-effect on various behavioral indices. I will propose potential mechanisms by which the action-effect enhances behavior and motor functions across several processing levels.