On the influence of causal beliefs on the feeling of agency
On the influence of causal beliefs on the feeling of agency
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DOI:
10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.012
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发表时间:
2011-12-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Waszak, Florian
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作者:
Desantis, Andrea;Roussel, Cedric;Waszak, Florian
The sense of agency is the experience of being the origin of a sensory consequence. This study investigates whether contextual beliefs modulate low-level sensorimotor processes which contribute to the emergence of the sense of agency. We looked at the influence of causal beliefs on 'intentional binding', a phenomenon which accompanies self-agency. Participants judged the onset-time of either an action or a sound which followed the action. They were induced to believe that the tone was either triggered by themselves or by somebody else, although, in reality, the sound was always triggered by the participants. We found that intentional binding was stronger when participants believed that they triggered the tone, compared to when they believed that another person triggered the tone. These results suggest that high-level contextual information influences sensorimotor processes responsible for generating intentional binding. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.