Sense of control depends on fluency of action selection, not motor performance

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 441-451

  Chambon, Valerian ^a   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action selection; Metacognition; Negative compatibility effect; Performance monitoring; Sense of agency; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84867400134     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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