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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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14 Feb 2021
TL;DR: Our perception of the duration of a piece of music is related to its tempo, and absolute durations may seem longer as the tempo of an underlying pulse or beat increases as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Our perception of the duration of a piece of music is related to its tempo. When listening to music, absolute durations may seem longer as the tempo—the rate of an underlying pulse or beat—increase...

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TL;DR: This study investigated behavioral and neurophysiological responses to an affective time perception Go/NoGo task, taking into account the behavioral inhibition (BIS) and behavioral activation systems (BASs), which are components of reinforcement sensitivity theory.
Abstract: Models of time perception share an element of scalar expectancy theory known as the internal clock, containing specific mechanisms by which the brain is able to experience time passing and function effectively. A debate exists about whether to treat factors that influence these internal clock mechanisms (e.g., emotion, personality, executive functions, and related neurophysiological components) as arousal- or attentional-based factors. This study investigated behavioral and neurophysiological responses to an affective time perception Go/NoGo task, taking into account the behavioral inhibition (BIS) and behavioral activation systems (BASs), which are components of reinforcement sensitivity theory. After completion of self-report inventories assessing personality traits, electroencephalogram (EEG/ERP) and behavioral recordings of 32 women and 13 men recruited from introductory psychology classes were completed during an affective time perception Go/NoGo task. This task required participants to respond (Go) and inhibit (NoGo) to positive and negative affective visual stimuli of various durations in comparison to a standard duration. Higher BAS scores (especially BAS Drive) were associated with overestimation bias scores for positive stimuli, while BIS scores were not correlated with overestimation bias scores. Furthermore, higher BIS Total scores were associated with higher N2d amplitudes during positive stimulus presentation for 280 ms, while higher BAS Total scores were associated with higher N2d amplitudes during negative stimuli presentation for 910 ms. Findings are discussed in terms of arousal-based models of time perception, and suggestions for future research are considered.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether abstract paintings that represent motion in different ways affect the perception of time when subjects are exposed to the paintings for different durations, showing that implied movement in abstract human figures is more effective than images with emotional content.
Abstract: perception can be affected by real emotional pictures of people that evoke different levels of arousal. Figurative artwork images of body postures that imply movement with different intensities and evoke different levels of arousal can modulate the perception of time. The present study investigated whether abstract paintings that represent motion in different ways affect the perception of time when subjects are exposed to the paintings for different durations. Undergraduate students observed 20 abstract paintings from different artistic schools (i.e., cubism, constructivism, expressionism, and futurism). They observed for 3 s each painting and estimated the time of exposure (reproduction method). After the time estimations, the subjects completed different semantic Movement, Arousal, Complexity, and Recognition scales to obtain information about how the painting compositions were perceived. Time distortions were observed for only two cubist paintings that represented human forms, which were related to both evoked arousal and implied movement (Experiment 1). Experiment 2 further verified whether these time distortions were related to implied movement perception or arousal. Different groups of participants were exposed for 3 and 9 s to only four cubist paintings that represented human forms. These time exposures (3 and 9 s) were used because the arousal-evoking effects may be transient for exposure times that are longer than 2-3 s. The data analysis revealed overestimation of time for the cubist painting that had greater arousal and movement scores only when the subjects were exposed for 9 s, showing that implied movement in abstract human figures is more effective than images with emotional content. We discuss the effect of durations of exposure to pictorial characteristics of artwork on time perception, emphasizing aspects of the visual perception of human forms in cubist paintings and arousal effects in an aesthetic episode. Keywords: time perception, static images, implied movement, cubism, arousal.

5 citations

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24 Nov 2017-bioRxiv
TL;DR: The behavioural and EEG results suggest a multifaceted role of alpha and beta activity in the temporal estimation of sub- and supra-second intervals, where power increases seem to lead to temporal compression.
Abstract: While the perception of time plays a crucial role in our day-to-day functioning, the underlying neural mechanism of time processing on short time scales (~1s) remains to be elucidated. Recently, the power of beta oscillations (~20 Hz) has been suggested to play an important role in temporal processing. However, the paradigms supporting this view have often had confounds of working memory, as well as motor preparation. In the current EEG study, we set out to investigate if power of oscillatory activity would be involved in time perception without an explicit working memory component or confound of a motor response. Participants indicated through a button press whether the time between a tone and a visual stimulus was 1 or 1.5s. Critically, we focused on the differences in oscillatory activity in the alpha (~10 Hz) and beta (~20 Hz) ranges preceding correct versus incorrect temporal judgments. Behaviourally, we found participants made more errors on the long (1.5s) than on the short (1s) interval. In addition, we found that participants were fastest to correctly respond to a long interval. The onset of the tone induced a suppression of alpha and beta activity over occipital and parietal electrodes. In the long estimation intervals, this suppression was greater for correct than incorrect estimations. Interestingly, alpha and beta suppression allowed us to predict whether participants would judge the long interval correctly. For the short interval trials we did not find a significant difference in alpha or beta band activity for the correct and incorrect judgments. Taken together, our behavioural and EEG results suggest a multifaceted role of alpha and beta activity in the temporal estimation of sub- and supra-second intervals, where power increases seem to lead to temporal compression. Higher alpha and beta power resulted in shorter temporal judgments for sub-second intervals.

5 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, healthy elementary school children, ages 7-12 years, remained in an isolated room for six days and repeatedly estimated short durations of auditory and visual stimuli as well as the time of day.

5 citations


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202395
2022178
202177
202083
2019101
201896