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Illusory temporal binding in meditators
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posted on 2023-06-13, 14:36 authored by Peter LushPeter Lush, Jim Parkinson, Zoltan DienesZoltan DienesWe investigate conditions in which more accurate metacognition may lead to greater susceptibility to illusion; and thus conditions under which mindfulness meditation may lead to less accurate perceptions. Specifically, greater awareness of intentions may lead to an illusory compression of time between a voluntary action and its outcome (“intentional binding”). Here we report that experienced Buddhist mindfulness meditators rather than non-meditators display a greater illusory shift of the timing of an outcome towards an intentional action. Mindfulness meditation involves awareness of causal connections between different mental states, including intentions. We argue that this supports improvements in metacognition targeted at motor intentions. Changes in metacognitive ability may result in an earlier and less veridical experience of the timing of action outcomes either through increased access to sensorimotor pre-representations of an action outcome or by affording greater precision to action timing judgements. Furthermore, as intentional binding is an implicit measure of the sense of agency, these results also provide evidence that mindfulness meditators experience a stronger sense of agency.
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MindfulnessISSN
1868-8527Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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6Volume
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1416-1422Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2016-07-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-01-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-07-18Usage metrics
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