Feelings of control: Contingency determines experience of action

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-283

  Moore, James W ^a   Lagnado, David ^b   Deal, Darvany C ^c   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action control; Action experience; Agency; Causality; Consciousness; Contingency; Voluntary action

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58249125996     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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