Diverging implicit measurement of sense of agency using interval estimation and Libet clock

Siebertz, Markus; Jansen, Petra

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2022.103287

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“…Tendentially, participants estimate time intervals to be shorter for action-effect sequences than for two other events (Dewey & Knoblich, 2014). However, findings in these studies are less robust and less clear in their conclusions than in the Libet clock paradigm (Siebertz & Jansen, 2022;Tanaka et al, 2019).…”

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“…Studies have found little evidence for correlations between sense of agency measures and temporal binding (Antusch et al, 2021;Saito et al, 2015;Schwarz, Weller, Klaffehn, & Pfister, 2019a; but see Imaizumi & Tanno, 2019), and have sought to find underlying mechanisms for temporal binding spanning from causality perception to multisensory integration that are indeed not synonymous with sense of agency (Antusch et al, 2020;Hoerl et al, 2020;Klaffehn et al, 2021). 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).…”

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“…Please note that while Haggard in his original study on temporal binding compared voluntary and involuntary movements(Haggard et al, 2002), some of his own subsequent work follows the experimental logic as explained here (e.g.,Wenke et al, 2009), as well as countless other studies in the field (e.g.,Antusch et al, 2021;Ruess et al, 2017;Saito et al, 2015;Schwarz et al, 2019a;Siebertz & Jansen, 2022).…”

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

Schwarz

Weller

2022

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“…Finally, we deliberately chose to focus on explicit sense of agency ratings in this series of experiments in the experimental procedure as well as for data interpretation; for one, because we wanted to analyze different rating scales that are either used synonymously in experiments or associated in theory, and for another, because implicit measures of sense of agency are currently very controversially discussed in their association with sense of agency (e.g., Hoerl et al, 2020; Klaffehn et al, 2021; Schwarz, Pfister, et al, 2018, 2019; Schwarz & Weller, 2022; Siebertz & Jansen, 2022; Tonn et al, 2021). Nevertheless, explicit ratings automatically invite potential biases.…”

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“…3Indeed, most studies on this question utilize temporal binding as a measure of sense of agency (e.g., Moretto et al, 2011; Takahata et al, 2012; Yoshie & Haggard, 2013) while its validity as an implicit readout of sense of agency is currently controversially discussed (e.g., Hoerl et al, 2020; Klaffehn et al, 2021; Schwarz et al, 2019; Schwarz & Weller, 2022; Siebertz & Jansen, 2022; Tonn et al, 2021). We therefore are reluctant to draw conclusions on sense of agency from studies which are primarily based on temporal binding measures.…”

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Sense of agency in social hierarchies.

Schwarz¹,

Tonn²,

Büttner³

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Distributing complex actions across agents is commonplace in human society. The objective efficiency of joint actions comes with critical challenges for the sense of agency of individual agents, complicating an accurate formation of these agents’ perceived control over actions and action outcomes. Here we report a new experimental paradigm to investigate sense of agency for supervisors and subordinates in hierarchical settings. Results indicate profound differences in the sense of agency between both roles, while also indicating additional contributions of such situational factors as degrees of freedom, action decision versus action execution, outcome valence, and veto options. We further observed a tight coupling of sense of agency and sense of responsibility, with only weak links to affective responses to the action outcome.

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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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Diverging implicit measurement of sense of agency using interval estimation and Libet clock

Cited by 30 publications

References 91 publications

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

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

Sense of agency in social hierarchies.

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