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Causality and the perception of time
David M. Eagleman1, Alex O. Holcombe
1The Salk Institute For Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd, 92037, La Jolla, CA, USA
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|July 26, 2002
Abstract:
Does our perception of when an event occurs depend on whether we caused it? A recent study suggests that when we perceive our actions to cause an event, it seems to occur earlier than if we did not cause it.