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José Luis Ulloa¹, Roberta Vastano², Ole Jensen³

¹Programa de Investigación Asociativa (PIA) en Ciencias Cognitivas, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas (CICC), Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Talca, Chile; Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri-Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.

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Summary

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Reduced beta desynchronization in brain activity predicts a stronger sense of agency and temporal binding. This suggests motor beta oscillations are key to how we experience action-outcome timing.

Keywords:

EEG Temporal binding automatic imitation beta oscillations motor system

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Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Psychology

Background:

Agency, the sense of control over actions and outcomes, is linked to temporal binding, the subjective compression of action-effect intervals.
Previous research connected temporal binding to sensorimotor functions, but the role of neural oscillations was not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between motor-related brain rhythms and temporal binding.
To determine if trial-by-trial variations in neural oscillations predict the subjective experience of agency and timing.

Main Methods:

Electroencephalography (EEG) was used alongside an automatic imitation task.
Participants performed finger movements and estimated the time between their action and a subsequent tone.
Time-frequency analysis and linear mixed-effects modeling were applied to EEG data.

Main Results:

Reduced beta desynchronization, a marker of motor activity, was found to predict stronger temporal binding.
This effect was observed independently of whether the action was congruent with the stimulus.
Neural oscillations, specifically beta rhythms, are implicated in the temporal experience of action-effect coupling.

Conclusions:

Motor beta oscillations play a significant role in the temporal experience of agency and action-effect coupling.
These findings suggest that predictive motor processes, reflected in beta oscillations, contribute to the construction of voluntary actions and our sense of control.