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Time for Action: Verbal Action Cues Influence Temporal Binding.

Tom G E Damen¹, Rick B van Baaren², Ap Dijksterhuis²

¹Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Frontiers in Psychology

|March 21, 2020

Summary

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Action cues matching ongoing actions enhance the sense of time passing, influencing temporal binding. This suggests contextual cues affect our feeling of independent agency.

Keywords:

agency control perception priming action social cueing temporal binding

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Temporal binding, the compression of time perception during voluntary action, is a well-established phenomenon.
The influence of external contextual cues, particularly those involving other agents, on temporal binding remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how action-related contextual cues, signaling other agents, modulate temporal binding.
To determine if the compatibility between external cues and ongoing actions affects the sense of independent agency.

Main Methods:

Three experiments were conducted involving participants performing actions while hearing synchronized or unsynchronized verbalizations of those actions.
Time perception was measured by estimating intervals between action initiation and effect.
Control conditions involved passive observation of computer-generated actions and effects.

Main Results:

Participants' time estimates were higher when auditory action cues matched their ongoing actions, indicating stronger temporal binding.
Conversely, time estimates were lower when cues and actions were mismatched.
These effects were absent in passive observation conditions, highlighting the role of active agency.

Conclusions:

The compatibility of action-related contextual cues with ongoing actions significantly influences temporal binding.
These findings suggest that external cues modulating action perception impact the subjective experience of independent agency.