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Time perception

About: Time perception is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1918 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87020 citations.


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TL;DR: In this issue, Schirmer (2011) reviews various theories that attempt to explain the mechanisms underlying emotional influences on time perception and proposes a hybrid theory to better support findings in the field.
Abstract: Interest in the relationship between emotion and time perception has noticeably increased in the past few years (Buhusi and Meck, 2005; Droit-Volet and Meck, 2007; Craig, 2009; Droit-Volet et al., 2011). Most of this recent work has used emotional stimuli, such as faces (e.g., Droit-Volet et al., 2004; Tipples, 2008), pictures (e.g., Angrilli et al., 1997; Grommet et al., 2011), and sounds (e.g., Noulhaine et al., 2007) to understand how emotion can change the subjective experience of short intervals of time. Efforts have largely focused on determining what these findings reveal about how time can be distorted and identifying the mechanisms responsible for flexibly modulating these distortions. In this issue, Schirmer (2011) reviews various theories that attempt to explain the mechanisms underlying emotional influences on time perception and proposes a hybrid theory to better support findings in the field. Further research will be necessary to support or contradict the proposed mechanistic influences of emotion on timing. While the value of this work is clear, it is equally important to address how timing research can inform affective science and affective disorders, a question that has thus far received little attention within the field. Specifically, a better understanding of how time is perceived in anxiety-provoking contexts could be important in fully appreciating the processes underlying the experience of anxiety.

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TL;DR: It was found that the TBI participants exhibited normal or near-normal estimates of time passage for duration up to 25 s, and for durations that exceeded working memory, the TBA group perceived less time as having passed than actually had passed as the T BI group significantly underestimated time when compared to controls.
Abstract: The ability to accurately estimate the passage of time plays an important role in helping to structure daily activities. In this study, we used a prospective verbal time estimation paradigm to investigate time perception in 27 moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) participants and 27 controls. Verbal time estimations were made for filled intervals both within (i.e., <30 s) and beyond the time frame of working memory. We found that the TBI participants exhibited normal or near-normal estimates of time passage for duration up to 25 s. In contrast, for durations that exceeded working memory, the TBI group perceived less time as having passed than actually had passed as the TBI group significantly underestimated time when compared to controls. This pattern of data was interpreted as being due to episodic memory dysfunction.

38 citations

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TL;DR: In a placebo-controlled study, either 15 mg of midazolam or placebo were applied to 36 healthy male volunteers to investigate the effect of pharmacologically induced sedation on temporal processing of intervals in the range of milliseconds as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Unlike processing of time intervals in the range of seconds or more, processing of brief durations ranging from approximately 50 to 100 ms appears to be beyond cognitive control and based on neural counting mechanisms In a placebo-controlled study either 15 mg of midazolam or placebo were applied to 36 healthy male volunteers to investigate the effect of pharmacologically induced sedation on temporal processing of intervals in the range of milliseconds indicating performance on time perception and in the range of seconds indicating performance on time estimation In addition, a test battery consisting of subtests measuring speed of information processing and cortical arousal was applied Midazolam induced a very pronounced decrease in cortical arousal as well as a marked impairment of speed of information processing and performance on time estimation as compared to placebo Performance on time perception, however, was not affected suggesting that temporal processing of very brief intervals is unrelated to the effective level of cortical arousal These findings support the notion of two different timing mechanisms underlying time estimation and time perception

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TL;DR: The dopaminergic system has great participation in impact on time perception and neurobiological basis of the executive functions and neurological diseases on the time perception is concluded.
Abstract: Dopaminergic system plays a key role in perception, which is an important executive function of the brain. Modulation in dopaminergic system forms an important biochemical underpinning of neural mechanisms of time perception in a very wide range, from milliseconds to seconds to longer daily rhythms. Distinct types of temporal experience are poorly understood, and the relationship between processing of different intervals by the brain has received little attention. A comprehensive understanding of interval timing functions should be sought within a wider context of temporal processing, involving genetic aspects, pharmacological models, cognitive aspects, motor control and the neurological diseases with impaired dopaminergic system. Particularly, an unexplored question is whether the role of dopamine in interval timing can be integrated with the role of dopamine in non-interval timing temporal components. In this review, we explore a wider perspective of dopaminergic system, involving genetic polymorphisms, pharmacological models, executive functions and neurological diseases on the time perception. We conclude that the dopaminergic system has great participation in impact on time perception and neurobiological basis of the executive functions and neurological diseases.

38 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202395
2022178
202177
202083
2019101
201896