Pascolini, Luca, Stephenson, Lisa, Bayliss, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Wyer, Natalie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8169-976X
(2021)
Words of agency: Executed and observed vocal actions induce a temporal binding effect.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47 (12).
1717–1730.
ISSN 0096-1523
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Abstract
Humans generally experience a sense of agency over the outcomes produced by their motor actions. This has been well established in the case of manual actions that directly affect the physical environment. Vocalizations are also actions, but they typically have only indirect effects on the environment. In the present research, we explore whether the outcomes produced by vocalizations also elicit a sense of agency. In three experiments, using an interval reproduction task, we find that performing a vocal action that produced an auditory outcome caused participants to underestimate the amount of elapsed time between actions and outcomes (i.e., temporal binding), an implicit index of the sense of agency (Experiment 1). We also show that observing others produce vocal actions elicits temporal binding, but only when the observer has direct visual access to the vocal action being executed (Experiments 2 and 3). Taken together, our findings suggest that direct observation of an action is necessary to experience a temporal binding effect for actions performed by others, and that audio-visuomotor information may play a role in the generation of temporal compression experienced over observed actions
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Additional Information: | Funding Information: The research was supported by University of East Anglia Studentships to Luca Pascolini and Lisa J. Stephenson and by a Leverhulme Trust Project RPG-2016-173 to Andrew P. Bayliss. Acknowledgements: The authors obtained permission to reproduce or adapt any copyrighted material from other sources. We thank S. Gareth Edwards for critical insights during early stages of this research. Data availability statement: Raw data and experimental stimuli used in this study has been made public to comply with good open science procedure. All files can be accessed at https://osf.io/jp57r/. This study was not preregistered. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | action perception,sense of agency,speech,temporal binding,experimental and cognitive psychology,arts and humanities (miscellaneous),behavioral neuroscience,3*,bayliss ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 07:30 |
Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2024 00:55 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82686 |
DOI: | 10.1037/xhp0000967 |
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