Connecting action control and agency: Does action-effect binding affect temporal binding?

Connecting action control and agency: Does action-effect binding affect temporal binding? Conscious Cogn. 2019 Oct 16;76:102833 Authors: Schwarz KA, Weller L, Pfister R, Kunde W Abstract The sense of agency, i.e., the notion that we, as agents, are in control of our own actions and can affect our environment by acting, is an integral part of human volition. Recent work has attempted to ground agency in basic mechanisms of human action control. Along these lines, action-effect binding has been shown to affect explicit judgments of agency. Here, we investigate if such action-effect bindings are also related to temporal binding which is often used as an implicit measure of agency. In two experiments, we found evidence for the establishment of short-term action-effect bindings as well as temporal binding effects. However, the two phenomena were not associated with each other. This finding suggests that the relation of action control and agency is not a simple one, and it adds to the evidence in favor of a dissociation between subjective agency and perceptual biases such as temporal binding. PMID: 31629097 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Conscious Cogn Source Type: research