Awareness of action: Inference and prediction

被引:304
作者
Moore, James [1 ]
Haggard, Patrick [1 ]
机构
[1] Inst Cognit Neurosci, London WC1N 3AR, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
action; intention; action effects; time judgment; awareness; agency;
D O I
10.1016/j.concog.2006.12.004
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study investigates whether the conscious awareness of action is based on predictive motor control processes, or on inferential "sense-making" process that occur after the action itself. We investigated whether the temporal binding between perceptual estimates of operant actions and their effects depends on the occurrence of the effect (inferential processes) or on the prediction that the effect will occur (predictive processes). By varying the probability with which a simple manual action produced an auditory effect, we showed that both the actual and the predicted occurrence of the effect played a role. When predictability of the effect of action was low, temporal binding was found only on those trials where the auditory effect occurred. In contrast, when predictability of the effect of action was high, temporal binding occurred even on trials where the action produced no effect. Further analysis showed that the predictive process is modulated by recent experience of the action-effect relation. We conclude that the experience of action depends on a dynamic combination of predictive and inferential processes. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:136 / 144
页数:9
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