@article{SchwarzWeller2023,
  author    = {Schwarz, Katharina A. and Weller, Lisa},
  title     = {Distracted to a fault: attention, actions, and time perception},
  series = {Attention, Perception, \& Psychophysics},
  volume    = {85},
  journal   = {Attention, Perception, \& Psychophysics},
  number    = {2},
  doi       = {10.3758/s13414-022-02632-x},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324936},
  pages     = {301-314},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In the last years, it has become general consensus that actions change our time perception. Performing an action to elicit a specific event seems to lead to a systematic underestimation of the interval between action and effect, a phenomenon termed temporal (or previously intentional) binding. Temporal binding has been closely associated with sense of agency, our perceived control over our actions and our environment, and because of its robust behavioral effects has indeed been widely utilized as an implicit correlate of sense of agency. The most robust and clear temporal binding effects are typically found via Libet clock paradigms. In the present study, we investigate a crucial methodological confound in these paradigms that provides an alternative explanation for temporal binding effects: a redirection of attentional resources in two-event sequences (as in classical operant conditions) versus singular events (as in classical baseline conditions). Our results indicate that binding effects in Libet clock paradigms may be based to a large degree on such attentional processes, irrespective of intention or action-effect sequences. Thus, these findings challenge many of the previously drawn conclusions and interpretations with regard to actions and time perception.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LiesnerHinzKunde2021,
  author    = {Liesner, Marvin and Hinz, Nina-Alisa and Kunde, Wilfried},
  title     = {How Action Shapes Body Ownership Momentarily and Throughout the Lifespan},
  series = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  issn      = {1662-5161},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnhum.2021.697810},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241869},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Objects which a human agent controls by efferent activities (such as real or virtual tools) can be perceived by the agent as belonging to his or her body. This suggests that what an agent counts as "body" is plastic, depending on what she or he controls. Yet there are possible limitations for such momentary plasticity. One of these limitations is that sensations stemming from the body (e.g., proprioception) and sensations stemming from objects outside the body (e.g., vision) are not integrated if they do not sufficiently "match". What "matches" and what does not is conceivably determined by long-term experience with the perceptual changes that body movements typically produce. Children have accumulated less sensorimotor experience than adults have. Consequently, they express higher flexibility to integrate body-internal and body-external signals, independent of their "match" as suggested by rubber hand illusion studies. However, children's motor performance in tool use is more affected by mismatching body-internal and body-external action effects than that of adults, possibly because of less developed means to overcome such mismatches. We review research on perception-action interactions, multisensory integration, and developmental psychology to build bridges between these research fields. By doing so, we account for the flexibility of the sense of body ownership for actively controlled events and its development through ontogeny. This gives us the opportunity to validate the suggested mechanisms for generating ownership by investigating their effects in still developing and incomplete stages in children. We suggest testable predictions for future studies investigating both body ownership and motor skills throughout the lifespan.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KlaffehnSellmannKirschetal.2021,
  author    = {Klaffehn, Annika L. and Sellmann, Florian B. and Kirsch, Wladimir and Kunde, Wilfried and Pfister, Roland},
  title     = {Temporal binding as multisensory integration: Manipulating perceptual certainty of actions and their effects},
  series = {Attention, Perception \& Psychophysics},
  volume    = {83},
  journal   = {Attention, Perception \& Psychophysics},
  number    = {8},
  issn      = {1943-393X},
  doi       = {10.3758/s13414-021-02314-0},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273195},
  pages     = {3135-3145},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {It has been proposed that statistical integration of multisensory cues may be a suitable framework to explain temporal binding, that is, the finding that causally related events such as an action and its effect are perceived to be shifted towards each other in time. A multisensory approach to temporal binding construes actions and effects as individual sensory signals, which are each perceived with a specific temporal precision. When they are integrated into one multimodal event, like an action-effect chain, the extent to which they affect this event's perception depends on their relative reliability. We test whether this assumption holds true in a temporal binding task by manipulating certainty of actions and effects. Two experiments suggest that a relatively uncertain sensory signal in such action-effect sequences is shifted more towards its counterpart than a relatively certain one. This was especially pronounced for temporal binding of the action towards its effect but could also be shown for effect binding. Other conceptual approaches to temporal binding cannot easily explain these results, and the study therefore adds to the growing body of evidence endorsing a multisensory approach to temporal binding.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Kirsch2021,
  author    = {Kirsch, Wladimir},
  title     = {On the relevance of task instructions for the influence of action on perception},
  series = {Attention, Perception \& Psychophysics},
  volume    = {83},
  journal   = {Attention, Perception \& Psychophysics},
  number    = {6},
  issn      = {1943-393X},
  doi       = {10.3758/s13414-021-02309-x},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273185},
  pages     = {2625-2633},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {The present study explored how task instructions mediate the impact of action on perception. Participants saw a target object while performing finger movements. Then either the size of the target or the size of the adopted finger postures was judged. The target judgment was attracted by the adopted finger posture indicating sensory integration of body-related and visual signals. The magnitude of integration, however, depended on how the task was initially described. It was substantially larger when the experimental instructions indicated that finger movements and the target object relate to the same event than when they suggested that they are unrelated. This outcome highlights the role of causal inference processes in the emergence of action specific influences in perception.},
  language  = {en}
}