ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2023
Distracted to a fault: Attention, actions, and time perception.
Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Decoding time from space: A review of the complication clock and its representation of temporal experience.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Effects of action instruction source on the sense of agency: humans vs. artificial agents.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Mental health in challenging situations: how experienced agency affects coping and mental distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Both first-hand and vicarious social ostracism reduces sense of agency and body ownership: evidence from explicit and implicit measures.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Recalibration of perceived agency transfers across modalities.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- A gaze into the void: Anticipatory saccades toward prevented events.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Differences in time perception in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Predicted action-effects shape action representation through pre-activation of alpha oscillations.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Microsaccades Do Not Give Rise to a Conscious Feeling of Agency for Their Sensorimotor Consequences in Visual Perception.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
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- Temporal binding and sense of agency in major depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
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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