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Automation technology and sense of control: a window on human agency.

Berberian, B; Sarrazin, JC; Le Blaye, P; Haggard, P; (2012) Automation technology and sense of control: a window on human agency. PLoS One , 7 (3) , Article e34075. 10.1371/journal.pone.0034075. Green open access

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Abstract

Previous studies have shown that the perceived times of voluntary actions and their effects are perceived as shifted towards each other, so that the interval between action and outcome seems shortened. This has been referred to as 'intentional binding' (IB). However, the generality of this effect remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that Intentional Binding also occurs in complex control situations. Using an aircraft supervision task with different autopilot settings, our results first indicated a strong relation between measures of IB and different levels of system automation. Second, measures of IB were related to explicit agency judgement in this applied setting. We discuss the implications for the underlying mechanisms, and for sense of agency in automated environments.

Type: Article
Title: Automation technology and sense of control: a window on human agency.
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034075
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034075
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012 Berberian et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3316600 The authors have no support or funding to report.
Keywords: Adult, Automation, Aviation, Awareness, Cognition, Female, Humans, Intention, Male, Models, Biological, Perception, Psychomotor Performance, Sensation, Systems Theory, Technology, Time Perception
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/1345804
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