Jim Parkinson

Illusory Temporal Binding in Meditators.

Mindfulness 2016 Peter Lush, Jim Parkinson, Zoltan Dienes

We investigate conditions in which more accurate metacognition may lead to greater susceptibility to illusion and thus conditions under which mindfulness meditation may lead to less accurate perceptions. Specifically, greater awareness of intentions may lead to an illusory compression of time between a voluntary action and its outcome ("intentional binding"). Here, we report that experienced...