Ebert, Jeffrey P.Wegner, Daniel2012-11-292010Ebert, Jeffrey P., and Daniel M. Wegner. 2010. Time warp: Authorship shapes the perceived timing of actions and events. Consciousness and Cognition 19(1): 481-489.1053-81001090-2376http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9967607It has been proposed that inferring personal authorship for an event gives rise to intentional binding, a perceptual illusion in which one's action and inferred effect seem closer in time than they otherwise would (Haggard, Clark, & Kalogeras, 2002). Using a novel, naturalistic paradigm, we conducted two experiments to test this hypothesis and examine the relationship between binding and self-reported authorship. In both experiments, an important authorship indicator - consistency between one's action and a subsequent event - was manipulated, and its effects on binding and self-reported authorship were measured. Results showed that action-event consistency enhanced both binding and self-reported authorship, supporting the hypothesis that binding arises from an inference of authorship. At the same time, evidence for a dissociation emerged, with consistency having a more robust effect on self-reports than on binding. Taken together, these results suggest that binding and self-reports reveal different aspects of the sense of authorship.en-USauthorshipintentional bindingillusion of conscious willactioncausal inferencepush/pull paradigmembodied cognitiontime perceptionimplicit agencyexplicit agencyJournal Article2012-11-2910.1016/j.concog.2009.10.002