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Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS

The temporal binding window refers to the time frame within which temporal grouping of sensory information takes place. Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one’s actions, and their associated outcomes. While previous research has shown that temporal cues and multisensory integratio...

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Autores principales: Venskus, Agnese, Ferri, Francesca, Migliorati, Daniele, Spadone, Sara, Costantini, Marcello, Hughes, Gethin
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8432734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256987
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author Venskus, Agnese
Ferri, Francesca
Migliorati, Daniele
Spadone, Sara
Costantini, Marcello
Hughes, Gethin
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Ferri, Francesca
Migliorati, Daniele
Spadone, Sara
Costantini, Marcello
Hughes, Gethin
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description The temporal binding window refers to the time frame within which temporal grouping of sensory information takes place. Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one’s actions, and their associated outcomes. While previous research has shown that temporal cues and multisensory integration play a role in sense of agency, no studies have directly assessed whether individual differences in the temporal binding window and sense of agency are associated. In all three experiments, to assess sense of agency, participants pressed a button triggering, after a varying delay, the appearance of the circle, and reported their sense of agency over the effect. To assess the temporal binding window a simultaneity judgment task (Experiment 1) and a double-flash illusion task (Experiment 2 and 3) was also performed. As expected, the temporal binding window correlated with the sense of agency window. In Experiment 3, these processes were modulated by applying occipital tACS at either 14Hz or 8Hz. We found 14Hz tACS stimulation was associated with narrower temporal biding window and sense of agency window. Our results suggest the temporal binding window and the time window of sense of agency are related. They also point towards a possible underlying neural mechanism (alpha peak frequency) for this association.
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spelling pubmed-84327342021-09-11 Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS Venskus, Agnese Ferri, Francesca Migliorati, Daniele Spadone, Sara Costantini, Marcello Hughes, Gethin PLoS One Research Article The temporal binding window refers to the time frame within which temporal grouping of sensory information takes place. Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one’s actions, and their associated outcomes. While previous research has shown that temporal cues and multisensory integration play a role in sense of agency, no studies have directly assessed whether individual differences in the temporal binding window and sense of agency are associated. In all three experiments, to assess sense of agency, participants pressed a button triggering, after a varying delay, the appearance of the circle, and reported their sense of agency over the effect. To assess the temporal binding window a simultaneity judgment task (Experiment 1) and a double-flash illusion task (Experiment 2 and 3) was also performed. As expected, the temporal binding window correlated with the sense of agency window. In Experiment 3, these processes were modulated by applying occipital tACS at either 14Hz or 8Hz. We found 14Hz tACS stimulation was associated with narrower temporal biding window and sense of agency window. Our results suggest the temporal binding window and the time window of sense of agency are related. They also point towards a possible underlying neural mechanism (alpha peak frequency) for this association. Public Library of Science 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8432734/ /pubmed/34506528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256987 Text en © 2021 Venskus et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ferri, Francesca
Migliorati, Daniele
Spadone, Sara
Costantini, Marcello
Hughes, Gethin
Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS
title Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS
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title_fullStr Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS
title_full_unstemmed Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS
title_short Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS
title_sort temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tacs
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8432734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256987
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