Time warp: Authorship shapes the perceived timing of actions and events

It has been proposed that inferring personal authorship for an event gives rise to intentional binding, a perceptual illusion in which one's action and inferred effect seem closer in time than they Otherwise Would (Haggard, Clark, & Kalogeras, 2002). Using a novel, naturalistic paradigm. we conducted two experiments to test this hypothesis and examine the relationship between binding and self-reported authorship In both experiments, an important authorship indicator - consistency between one's action and a subsequent event - was manipulated, and its effects on binding and self-reported authorship were measured Results showed that action-event consistency enhanced both binding and self-reported authorship, supporting the hypothesis that binding arises from an inference of authorship At the same time, evidence for a dissociation emerged. with consistency having a more robust effect on self-reports than on binding Taken together. these results suggest that binding and self-reports reveal different aspects of the sense Of authorship (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved