The time between intention and action affects the experience of action.

ABSTRACT: We present a study investigating how the delay between the intention to act and the following action, influenced the experience of action. In experiments investigating sense of agency and experience of action, the contrast is most often between voluntary and involuntary actions. It is rarely asked whether different types of intentions influence the experience of action differently. To investigate this we distinguished between proximal intentions (i.e., intentions for immediate actions) and delayed intentions (i.e., intentions with a temporal delay between intention and action). The distinction was implemented in an intentional binding paradigm, by varying the delay between the time where participants formed the intention to act and the time at which they performed the action. The results s

SUBMITTER: Vinding MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4473004 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature