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Liyu Cao¹, Michael Steinborn², Wilfried Kunde²

¹Department of Psychology (III), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 97070, Würzburg, Germany. liyu.cao@uni-wuerzburg.de.

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Summary

Somatosensory feedback, like keypress force, influences action binding. Stronger somatosensory input can reduce the perceived time shift between an action and its sensory feedback.

Keywords:

Action binding Force Multisensory processing Somatosensory feedback

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Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Action binding describes how action timing is influenced by sensory feedback.
The role of somatosensory feedback in action binding has been under-explored.
Existing research primarily focuses on auditory feedback's impact.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the functional role of somatosensory feedback in action binding.
To determine how somatosensory feedback strength affects perceived action timing.
To explore the integration of somatosensory and auditory feedback in action binding.

Main Methods:

Participants performed keypress actions with varying peak forces (indexing somatosensory feedback strength).
Auditory feedback was sometimes paired with keypresses.
Participants reported the perceived timing of their keypresses.

Main Results:

Somatosensory feedback strength correlated positively with reported keypress time without auditory feedback.
Somatosensory feedback strength correlated negatively with reported keypress time with auditory feedback.
Increased somatosensory feedback reduced action binding effects at the group level.

Conclusions:

Somatosensory feedback is a functional component in judging action timing and action binding.
Action binding arises from multisensory integration of somatosensory and auditory inputs.
Individual differences in action binding relate to weighting of sensory information.