Illusory Temporal Binding in Meditators

Lush, Peter; Parkinson, Jim; Dienes, Zoltán

doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0583-z

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“…Differences in the magnitude of intentional binding are often considered to reflect differences in the sense of agency (e.g., Caspar, Christensen, Cleeremans, & Haggard, 2016; Khalighinejad, Di Costa, & Haggard, 2016; Lush, Parkinson, & Dienes, 2016), but this relationship is not straightforward. It has been demonstrated that causal relationships similarly influence reports of a temporal interval between two events without any intentional action, provided that a causal relationship between the events is believed to exist ( causal binding ; Buehner, 2012, 2015; Buehner & Humphreys, 2009; Moore, Lagnado, Deal, & Haggard, 2009).…”

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Intentional Binding Without Intentional Action

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The experience of authorship over one’s actions and their consequences—sense of agency—is a fundamental aspect of conscious experience. In recent years, it has become common to use intentional binding as an implicit measure of the sense of agency. However, it remains contentious whether reported intentional-binding effects indicate the role of intention-related information in perception or merely represent a strong case of multisensory causal binding. Here, we used a novel virtual-reality setup to demonstrate identical magnitude-binding effects in both the presence and complete absence of intentional action, when perceptual stimuli were matched for temporal and spatial information. Our results demonstrate that intentional-binding-like effects are most simply accounted for by multisensory causal binding without necessarily being related to intention or agency. Future studies that relate binding effects to agency must provide evidence for effects beyond that expected for multisensory causal binding by itself.

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“…Specifically, past research showed correlations between intentional awareness and brain activation related to motor preparation for individuals who are assumed to enjoy high levels of internal insight (e.g., meditators; Jo et al, 2015), as well as demonstrated that these differences can affect the implicit sense of agency. A study by Lush et al (2016), for example, found that intentional binding was stronger for experienced meditators who find practicing mindfulness pleasurable, than for controls (Lush et al, 2016). In addition, beliefs in free will have been linked to intentional binding, which is explained in terms of a motivational or cognitive orientation toward the results of action intentions (Aarts and Van den Bos, 2011; Lynn et al, 2014).…”

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The Role of Intentional Strength in Shaping the Sense of Agency

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Awareness of action is a pervasive personal experience that is crucial in understanding self-generated and other-generated actions as well as their effects. A large body of research suggests that action awareness, as measured by the magnitude of temporal binding between an action and its effect in an operant action task (i.e., intentional binding), is rooted in the human capacity to experience self-agency and establish action intentions. Whereas previous research mainly addressed the role of intentionality itself in these socially well-shared experiences, in the present study we focused specifically on one important aspect of it: the quality or strength of action intentions. We expected and established that stronger intentions increase intentional binding. Specifically, the magnitude of the binding effect, as assessed by the Libet clock task in which two actions were followed by the same neutral tone, was elevated for the action that was enacted with stronger intentions. We briefly discuss the implications of the observed role of intentional strength in temporal binding between action and effect, for promoting a better understanding and examination of how the concept of intentionality is associated with action awareness in general, and the experience of being the agent of one’s own actions in particular.

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“…IB data were obtained as described in previous studies. 27,34,45 First, we calculated distinct values for the action shift and the tone shift. and alcohol (0.0, 0.4, and 0.6 g/kg), followed by appropriate post hoc pair-wise comparisons.…”

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“…IB data were obtained as described in previous studies . First, we calculated distinct values for the action shift and the tone shift.…”

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Effect of alcohol on the sense of agency in healthy humans

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Even at low to moderate doses, ingestion of the widely used recreational drug alcohol (ethanol) can impact cognitive and emotional processing. Recent studies show that the sense of agency (SoA; ie, the subjective experience of voluntary control over actions) can be modulated by specific pharmacological manipulations. The SoA, as quantified by the intentional binding (IB) paradigm, is enhanced by direct or indirect dopaminergic agonists in patients with Parkinson's disease and by ketamine (an N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist) in healthy individuals. These findings implicate dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission in mechanisms underlying SoA. Alcohol has a complex set of actions, including disinhibition of dopaminergic neurotransmission and allosteric antagonism at NMDA receptors. Here, we tested the hypothesis that low to moderate doses of alcohol would enhance SoA, and impact impulsivity and subjective emotional state. We conducted two experiments in 59 healthy male and female social drinkers, who ingested either a placebo “vehicle,” or one of two doses of ethanol: 0.4 and 0.6 g/kg. In both experiments, we observed increased SoA/IB at both doses of alcohol exposure, relative to the placebo condition. We found no correlation between the effects of alcohol on IB and on impulsivity or subjective emotional state. Our findings might have implications for social and legal responsibility related to alcohol use, particularly in states prior to overt intoxication. Further studies are necessary to investigate the effects of alcohol and other addictive substances on the SoA.

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Illusory Temporal Binding in Meditators

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Intentional Binding Without Intentional Action

Intentional Binding Without Intentional Action

The Role of Intentional Strength in Shaping the Sense of Agency

Effect of alcohol on the sense of agency in healthy humans

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