The implicit sense of agency is not a perceptual effect but is a judgment effect

Reddy, Nagireddy Neelakanteswar

doi:10.1007/s10339-021-01066-x

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“…While our results demonstrate that such an alternative explanation seems viable, at this point we cannot make clear inferences about the mechanisms underlying these processes. However, there are at least two clear potential candidates for mediating the effect of attention on temporal binding: partial multisensory integration (e.g., Debats et al, 2017;Klaffehn et al, 2021) and heuristic judgments (Reddy, 2021).…”

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“…Likewise, it may be possible that due to attentional distraction, perceptual certainty of any event becomes so low that judgment heuristics are used instead for time estimations, favoring a "middle" ground in between the two events (Reddy, 2021). Future studies may probe for any of these mechanisms for temporal binding in two-event sequences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the measuring of temporal binding has come under scrutiny with neither different measures of temporal binding nor subcomponents of the same temporal binding measure relating to one another (Siebertz & Jansen, 2022;Tonn et al, 2021). Conceptually, temporal binding has been questioned as being a measure of perception at all versus a phenomenon based on judgment procedures (Ivanof et al, 2021;Reddy, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, it is quite possible that focus of attentional resources may change perceptual certainty of either event, thus affecting multisensory integration. Alternatively, due to their distraction, participants might be more inclined to follow simple heuristics in their time estimations rather than real perceptual changes, tending towards a "middle ground" in between both events (e.g., Reddy, 2021).…”

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Distracted to a fault: Attention, actions, and time perception

Schwarz

Weller

2022

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In the last years, it has become general consensus that actions change our time perception. Performing an action to elicit a specific event seems to lead to a systematic underestimation of the interval between action and effect, a phenomenon termed temporal (or previously intentional) binding. Temporal binding has been closely associated with sense of agency, our perceived control over our actions and our environment, and because of its robust behavioral effects has indeed been widely utilized as an implicit correlate of sense of agency. The most robust and clear temporal binding effects are typically found via Libet clock paradigms. In the present study, we investigate a crucial methodological confound in these paradigms that provides an alternative explanation for temporal binding effects: a redirection of attentional resources in two-event sequences (as in classical operant conditions) versus singular events (as in classical baseline conditions). Our results indicate that binding effects in Libet clock paradigms may be based to a large degree on such attentional processes, irrespective of intention or action-effect sequences. Thus, these findings challenge many of the previously drawn conclusions and interpretations with regard to actions and time perception.

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Section: Potential Mechanismsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Distracted to a fault: Attention, actions, and time perception

Schwarz

Weller

2022

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…In contrast to the matching task, where the stimulus-label combination serves as symbol to trigger an action that must be retrieved from memory, in the temporal binding task, the stimulus serves as action–effect. Here, participants retrospectively have to retrieve the timing as well as the identity (for unpredictable outcomes) of the perceived sensory input to make judgements about its occurrence (see Moore & Haggard, 2008 ; Reddy, 2022 ). Attention focusses more quickly on self-relevant stimuli (see also Golubickis & Macrae, 2021b ) making them accessible earlier to the system whereby effect binding should increase.…”

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You do you: susceptibility of temporal binding to self-relevance

Muth,

Ebert,

Kunde

2024

Psychological Research

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The self-prioritization effect suggests that self-relevant information has a processing advantage over information that is not directly associated with the self. In consequence, reaction times are faster and accuracy rates higher when reacting to self-associated stimuli rather than to other-related stimuli (Sui et al., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38:1105–1117, 2012). This spurs the assumption that self-associated action–effects should also be perceived earlier than other-related outcomes. One way to measure this is temporal binding. Previous research indeed showed that the perceived temporal interval between actions and self-associated outcomes was reduced compared to friend- and other-associated outcomes. However, the employed method (interval estimations) and several experimental design choices make it impossible to discern whether the perceived shortening of the interval between a keypress and a self-relevant outcome is due to a perceptual shift of the action or of the action–effect or both. Thus, we conducted four experiments to assess whether temporal binding can indeed be modulated by self-relevance and if so where this perceptual bias is located. The results did not support stronger temporal binding for self- vs other-related action–effects. We discuss these results against the backdrop of the attentional basis of self-prioritization and propose directions for future research.

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