Suzuki, Keisuke, Lush, Peter, Seth, Anil K and Roseboom, Warrick (2019) Intentional binding without intentional action. Psychological Science, 30 (6). pp. 842-853. ISSN 0956-7976
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics |
Research Centres and Groups: | Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF0311 Consciousness. Cognition |
Depositing User: | Marianne Cole |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2019 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2020 07:30 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/82088 |
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