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Causality and the perception of time
[Does our perception of when an event occurs depend on whether we caused it? A recent study suggests that when we perceive our actions to cause an event, it seems to occur earlier than if we did not cause it.]

http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/eagleman/papers/EaglemanHolcombeTICS2002.pdf

Conscious intention and motor cognition
[The subjective experience of conscious intention is a key component of our mental life. Philosophers studying ‘conscious free will’ have discussed whether conscious intentions could cause actions, but modern neuroscience rejects this idea of mind–body causation. Instead, recent findings suggest that the conscious experience of intending to act arises from preparation for action in frontal and parietal brain areas. Intentional actions also involve a strong sense of agency, a sense of controlling events in the external world. Both intention and agency result from the brain processes for predictive motor control, not merely from retrospective inference.]

http://www.psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de/hans.colonius/personal%20webpage/courses/seminare/haggard_TCogSci_05.pdf

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