Attentive Observation Is Essential for the Misattribution of Agency to Self-Performance

Recent studies have repeatedly demonstrated a false memory phenomenon in which people falsely remember having performed an action by oneself when in fact they have only observed the action by another person. We investigated the attentional effect to the action itself on the observation inflation. Fi...

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Main Authors: Shiho Kashihara, Noriaki Kanayama, Makoto Miyatani, Takashi Nakao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00890/full