Distortions of Subjective Time Perception Within and Across Senses

Wassenhove, Virginie van; Buonomano, Dean V.; Shimojo, Shinsuke; Shams, Ladan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001437

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“…For instance, a looming stimulus leads to time dilation, whereas the opposite effect is not observed for a receding stimulus. (e.g., Van Wassenhove et al, 2008;Van Wassenhove et al, 2011). These findings were hypothesized to result from potential modulations in both clock speed (multiplicative effects) and switch latency (additive effects), and therefore directly relate to and are complemented by the results presented here.…”

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Asymmetrical modulation of time perception by increase versus decrease in coherence of motion

Karşılar

Balcı

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Stimulus properties are known to affect duration judgments. In this study, we tested the effect of motion coherence levels in randomly moving dots on the perceived duration of these stimuli. In Experiments 1 and 2 we tested participants on a temporal reproduction task, using stimuli with varying degrees of motion coherence as the to-be-timed stimuli. Our results in both experiments showed that increasing motion coherence from the encoded (i.e. the first) to the reproduced (i.e. the second) stimulus leads to longer reproduction times. These effects were primarily additive in nature, and their magnitude increased with the difference between the coherence levels in the encoding versus reproduction (decoding) phases. This effect was not mirrored when there was a decrease in motion coherence. Experiment 3 tested if the differential number of exploratory saccadic eye-movements during encoding and reproduction predicted these effects. The behavioral findings of Experiment 1 and 2 were replicated in the third experiment, and the change in the number of eye movements from encoding to reproduction predicted the reproduction time when there was an increase in motion coherence. These results are explained by the effect of attention on the latency to initiate temporal integration that is only manifested when there is an increase in the level of motion coherence.

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Asymmetrical modulation of time perception by increase versus decrease in coherence of motion

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Balcı

2016

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“…Previous research had shown that looming stimuli elicited dilation in perceived interval length but that receding stimuli did not (New & Scholl, 2009;van Wassenhove et al, 2008;Wittmann et al, 2010). However, this previous research only simulated motion using 2-D stimuli.…”

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“…Looming signals of two-dimensional (2-D) stimuli (i.e., discs that expand in diameter) are associated with subjective time dilation, whereas receding signals (i.e., discs that contract in size) are not (New & Scholl, 2009;van Wassenhove et al, 2008;Wittmann, van Wassenhove, Craig, & Paulus, 2010). For example, Wittmann et al presented participants with trials consisting of three successive stationary stimuli at a standard duration, followed by a test stimulus that appeared to loom, recede, or remain stationary, followed by a standard stimulus.…”

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Contextual influences of dimension, speed, and direction of motion on subjective time perception

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Reed

2012

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Research has indicated that the direction of motion and the speed of motion can influence the subjective estimates of temporal duration of two-dimensional (2-D) stimuli expanding and contracting within the picture plane. In this study, we investigated whether the contextual cues of stimulus/movement-plane dimensionality (2-D stimuli with implied movement in the picture plane or depth-rendered "3-D" stimuli with implied movement in the depth plane) influence and interact with speed and implied movement direction during interval estimation. Participants viewed a series of standard stimulus durations followed by a test stimulus duration and determined whether the test and standard durations differed. The results indicated that moving stimuli were overestimated relative to stationary stimuli, regardless of the direction of motion or dimensionality. Also, faster-moving stimuli were overestimated relative to slower-moving stimuli. Importantly, an interaction between movement direction and dimensional cues indicated that the loom/recede distinction occurs for 2-D but not for 3-D stimuli. It is possible that the loom/recede distinction for the 2-D condition may be an artifact arising from reduced or from a lack of perceived motion in 2-D "recede" conditions, rather than a specific overestimation for looming stimuli.

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“…Interestingly, significant correlations were still observed between RTs and P3 latency (R = 0.698, P \ 0.001) within the visual target group. Unlike both the auditory and somatosensory target conditions, difficulty in detecting the target event (V) did not significantly vary with the presence of multisensory background events (a, s, and as) (van Wassenhove et al 2008). It is possible that the combination of multisensory facilitation and inhibition cancelled one another out, thus resulting in a similar level of difficulty during working memory updating.…”

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Dynamic characteristics of multisensory facilitation and inhibition

Wang

Valentini

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Cogn Neurodyn

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Multimodal integration, which mainly refers to multisensory facilitation and multisensory inhibition, is the process of merging multisensory information in the human brain. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the dynamic characteristics of multimodal integration are not fully understood. The objective of this study is to investigate the basic mechanisms of multimodal integration by assessing the intermodal influences of vision, audition, and somatosensory sensations (the influence of multisensory background events to the target event). We used a timed target detection task, and measured both behavioral and electroencephalographic responses to visual target events (green solid circle), auditory target events (2 kHz pure tone) and somatosensory target events (1.5 ± 0.1 mA square wave pulse) from 20 normal participants. There were significant differences in both behavior performance and ERP components when comparing the unimodal target stimuli with multimodal (bimodal and trimodal) target stimuli for all target groups. Significant correlation among reaction time and P3 latency was observed across all target conditions. The perceptual processing of auditory target events (A) was inhibited by the background events, while the perceptual processing of somatosensory target events (S) was facilitated by the background events. In contrast, the perceptual processing of visual target events (V) remained impervious to multisensory background events.

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Distortions of Subjective Time Perception Within and Across Senses

Cited by 195 publications

References 73 publications

Asymmetrical modulation of time perception by increase versus decrease in coherence of motion

Asymmetrical modulation of time perception by increase versus decrease in coherence of motion

Contextual influences of dimension, speed, and direction of motion on subjective time perception

Dynamic characteristics of multisensory facilitation and inhibition

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