Freedom, choice, and the sense of agency

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dc.cclicenceN/Aen
dc.contributor.authorBarlas, Zeynep
dc.contributor.authorObhi, Sukhvinder
dc.date.acceptance2013-08-11
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-03T12:40:51Z
dc.date.available2019-07-03T12:40:51Z
dc.date.issued2013-08-29
dc.descriptionopen access journalen
dc.description.abstractThe sense of agency is an intriguing aspect of human consciousness and is commonly defined as the sense that one is the author of their own actions and their consequences. In the current study, we varied the number of action alternatives (one, three, seven) that participants could select from and determined the effects on intentional binding which is believed to index the low-level sense of agency. Participants made self-paced button presses while viewing a conventional Libet clock and reported the perceived onset time of either the button presses or consequent auditory tones. We found that the binding effect was strongest when participants had the maximum number of alternatives, intermediate when they had medium level of action choice and lowest when they had no choice. We interpret our results in relation to the potential link between agency and the freedom to choose one’s actions.en
dc.exception.reasonWilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canadaen
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationBarlas, Z. and Obhi, S. S. (2013) Freedom, choice, and the sense of agency.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, pp. 514.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00514
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/18166
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherFrontiersen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Psychological Scienceen
dc.subjectaction awarenessen
dc.subjectsense of agencyen
dc.subjectaction choiceen
dc.subjectintentional bindingen
dc.subjectauthorshipen
dc.titleFreedom, choice, and the sense of agencyen
dc.typeArticleen

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