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SUMMARY:Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical e
 xamination - Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Voluntary action gives rise to a temporal binding effect\, in 
 which the interval between intentional movements and their causal conseque
 nces is subjectively compressed. In the current psychological literature\,
  temporal binding is widely conceived of as a measure of a 'sense of agenc
 y' involved in voluntary action. I provide an analysis of the explanatory 
 framework that I take to be in play in existing accounts based on this ide
 a. I raise two key problems for such accounts – an empirical and a conce
 ptual one – and argue that the very idea of a dedicated 'sense of agency
 ' rests on a confusion between two different issues. I then outline an alt
 ernative explanatory framework\, which instead construes temporal binding 
 as a measure of a belief in causality. I show how such an alternative fram
 ework\, too\, can explain the results of studies in which temporal binding
  has been shown to be affected by factors that specifically impinge on par
 ticipants' judgements about the extent to which they are themselves active
 ly involved in bringing about the timed events.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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