Studying the sense of agency in the absence of motor movement: an investigation into temporal binding of tactile sensations and auditory effects.

ABSTRACT: People form coherent representations of goal-directed actions. Such agency experiences of intentional action are reflected by a shift in temporal perception: self-generated motor movements and subsequent sensory effects are perceived to occur closer together in time-a phenomenon termed intentional binding. Building on recent research suggesting that temporal binding occurs without intentionally performing actions, we further examined whether such perceptual compression occurs when motor action is fully absent. In three experiments, we used a novel sensory-based adaptation of the Libet clock paradigm to assess how a brief tactile sensation on the index finger and a resulting auditory stimulus perceptually bind together in time. Findings revealed robust temporal repulsion (instead of binding

SUBMITTER: Antusch S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277642 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature