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Elizabeth Liddle1, Stephen R Jackson

  • 1Developmental Psychiatry, School of Community Health Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK. Elizabeth.Liddle@nottingham.ac.uk

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|December 5, 2006
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Intentional binding, linking actions to outcomes, can create illusions of reversed time perception. This temporal order illusion is linked to heightened activity in the brain's conflict monitoring region.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Perception Psychology

Background:

  • The perception of time and the sense of agency are fundamental to human cognition.
  • Intentional binding describes the subjective experience where the time between an action and its consequence feels shorter.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between intentional binding and the illusory inversion of temporal order.
  • To explore the neural correlates of this temporal illusion, specifically focusing on brain regions involved in monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed actions and experienced consequences under controlled conditions.
  • Behavioral measures assessed the subjective experience of temporal order and intentional binding.
  • Neuroimaging techniques (e.g., fMRI) were used to measure brain activity during the task.

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Main Results:

  • Intentional binding significantly predicted the degree of illusory inversion of temporal order.
  • Increased activation was observed in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a key area for conflict monitoring, during conditions associated with temporal inversion.
  • This suggests a link between the subjective experience of agency and cognitive control processes.

Conclusions:

  • The findings demonstrate that the subjective experience of binding an action to its consequence can lead to distortions in temporal perception.
  • Heightened conflict monitoring activity in the brain is associated with these temporal illusions, suggesting a role for cognitive control in shaping our sense of time.