Two faces of temporal binding: Action- and effect-binding are not correlated.

Area of Science:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Neuroscience

Background:

• Sense of agency research utilizes diverse explicit and implicit measures.
• The relationship between explicit agency judgments and implicit temporal binding is poorly understood, with inconsistent findings.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the correlation between explicit agency judgments and temporal binding.
• To examine the relationship between the two sub-components of temporal binding: action-binding and effect-binding.

Main Methods:

• Utilized explicit measures of agency judgments.
• Employed implicit perceptual bias measures, specifically temporal binding.
• Analyzed inter-individual differences in correlations between these measures.

Main Results:

• Found weak correlations between explicit agency judgments and temporal binding.
• Demonstrated that action-binding and effect-binding are not correlated across participants.
• Indicated that the two sub-components of temporal binding likely represent independent processes.

Conclusions:

• The relationship between explicit and implicit measures of agency requires further investigation.
• Temporal binding components, action-binding and effect-binding, appear to be dissociable.
• Future research on inter-individual differences in agency should consider alternative implicit measures until temporal binding is better elucidated.