Abstract:Humans generally experience a sense of agency over the outcomes produced by their motor actions. This has been well established in the case of manual actions that directly affect the physical environment. Vocalisations are also actions, but they typically have only indirect effects on the environment. In the present research, we explore whether the outcomes produced by vocalisations also elicit a sense of agency. In three experiments, using an interval reproduction task, we find that performing a vocal action … Show more
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