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EXPRESS: Intentional binding decreases during learning: implications for sense of agency

Seghezzi, Silvia; Parés-Pujolràs, Elisabeth; Haggard, Patrick; (2025) EXPRESS: Intentional binding decreases during learning: implications for sense of agency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 10.1177/17470218251349521. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The sense of agency refers to the subjective experience of controlling one's own actions and their outcomes. While agency is often thought to increase with better performance, it remains unclear how it evolves during learning. In this study, we investigated how the sense of agency changes as individuals learn when to act through reinforcement-based adaptation. We used intentional binding (IB)-a widely used, though debated, proxy measure for agency-related processes -to track temporal compression between actions and outcomes during a time-based learning task. Across four experiments, we found that IB decreased with learning, but only when feedback was imprecise yet stable, and when the outcome used to probe IB was irrelevant to the learning task. These results suggest that agency-related processes, as indexed by IB, may diminish when adaptation guides action selection, and when the outcome becomes less epistemically relevant. We discuss the possible implications of these changes in IB with learning for the sense of agency.

Type: Article
Title: EXPRESS: Intentional binding decreases during learning: implications for sense of agency
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/17470218251349521
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251349521
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: Intentional Binding, Learning, Sense of agency
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209609
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