KANDEL PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL SCIENCE CHAPTER 59: DISORDERS OF
CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL PROCESSES
The control of action is largely unconscious.
Intended binding = when a deliberate movement is followed by its intended goal, these events are
experienced subjectively as bound together in time.
Intentional binding is increased when associated with outcomes that have moral consequences.
It is reduced for actions that have been commanded by others, rather than performed freely.
Unconscious inference occurs in the motor domain as well as the sensory domain.
Our experience of agency is created from two components:
1. Our prior expectations
2. The sensory consequences of the outcome of the action
It would seem that as long as the goal is realized, we experience the expected sensory feedback, not
the actual sensory feedback.
CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL PROCESSES
The control of action is largely unconscious.
Intended binding = when a deliberate movement is followed by its intended goal, these events are
experienced subjectively as bound together in time.
Intentional binding is increased when associated with outcomes that have moral consequences.
It is reduced for actions that have been commanded by others, rather than performed freely.
Unconscious inference occurs in the motor domain as well as the sensory domain.
Our experience of agency is created from two components:
1. Our prior expectations
2. The sensory consequences of the outcome of the action
It would seem that as long as the goal is realized, we experience the expected sensory feedback, not
the actual sensory feedback.
