Duration perception of emotional stimuli: Using evaluative conditioning to avoid sensory confounds

Kliegl, Katrin; Watrin, Luc; Huckauf, Anke

doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.978841

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“…Thus, when using the bisection procedure, the validity of labeling an interaction between emotion and duration as a pacemaker-like effect (65) or of suggesting that the lack of such an interaction is evidence against a pacemaker mechanism (97, 102) is questionable when the magnitude of estimates are assessed within a single temporal range. See Kliegl et al (124) for a novel use of the temporal bisection procedure in conjunction with evaluative conditioning in order to avoid sensory confounds by having the same stimulus serve as both the neural and the emotional signal depending on prior conditioning.…”

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Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception

Lake

LaBar

Meck

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

146

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Like other senses, our perception of time is not veridical, but rather, is modulated by changes in environmental context. Anecdotal experiences suggest that emotions can be powerful modulators of time perception; nevertheless, the functional and neural mechanisms underlying emotion-induced temporal distortions remain unclear. Widely accepted pacemaker-accumulator models of time perception suggest that changes in arousal and attention have unique influences on temporal judgments and contribute to emotional distortions of time perception. However, such models conflict with current views of arousal and attention suggesting that current models of time perception do not adequately explain the variability in emotion-induced temporal distortions. Instead, findings provide support for a new perspective of emotion-induced temporal distortions that emphasizes both the unique and interactive influences of arousal and attention on time perception over time. Using this framework, we discuss plausible functional and neural mechanisms of emotion-induced temporal distortions and how these temporal distortions may have important implications for our understanding of how emotions modulate our perceptual experiences in service of adaptive responding to biologically relevant stimuli.

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Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception

Lake

LaBar

Meck

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

146

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“…In general, the procedure consisted in a temporal bisection task, a commonly used task in duration studies (e.g., Droit-Volet et al, 2004 ; Tipples, 2008 ; Grommet et al, 2011 ; Kliegl et al, 2014 ). At first, participants were instructed verbally and in written form.…”

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The complex duration perception of emotional faces: effects of face direction

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Limbrecht-Ecklundt

Dürr³

et al. 2015

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The perceived duration of emotional face stimuli strongly depends on the expressed emotion. But, emotional faces also differ regarding a number of other features like gaze, face direction, or sex. Usually, these features have been controlled by only using pictures of female models with straight gaze and face direction. Doi and Shinohara (2009) reported that an overestimation of angry faces could only be found when the model’s gaze was oriented toward the observer. We aimed at replicating this effect for face direction. Moreover, we explored the effect of face direction on the duration perception sad faces. Controlling for the sex of the face model and the participant, female and male participants rated the duration of neutral, angry, and sad face stimuli of both sexes photographed from different perspectives in a bisection task. In line with current findings, we report a significant overestimation of angry compared to neutral face stimuli that was modulated by face direction. Moreover, the perceived duration of sad face stimuli did not differ from that of neutral faces and was not influenced by face direction. Furthermore, we found that faces of the opposite sex appeared to last longer than those of the same sex. This outcome is discussed with regards to stimulus parameters like the induced arousal, social relevance, and an evolutionary context.

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“…The relatively scarcity of studies reporting effects for pleasant stimuli should not be taken as evidence for threat-specific effects: Overestimation of time has been reported for pleasant arousing images (Volkinburg & Balsam, 2014), happy facial expressions (Droit-Volet et al, 2004) and also, for neutral stimuli associated with pleasant, high arousal stimuli using an evaluative conditioning procedure (Kliegl et al, 2015). There is some evidence of differential effects of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli on timing and this evidence includes an underestimation effect for both pleasant (Gable & Poole, 2012) and unpleasant stimuli (Lui et al, 2011).…”

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Clock Speed as a Window into Dopaminergic Control of Emotion and Time Perception

Cheng

Tipples

Narayanan

et al. 2016

Timing Time Percept

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Although fear-producing treatments (e.g., electric shock) and pleasure-inducing treatments (e.g., methamphetamine) have different emotional valences, they both produce physiological arousal and lead to effects on timing and time perception that have been interpreted as reflecting an increase in speed of an internal clock. In this commentary, we review the results reported by Fayolle et al. (2015): Behav. Process., 120, 135-140) and Meck (1983: J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process., 9, 171-201) using electric shock and by Maricq et al. (1981: J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process., 7, 18-30) using methamphetamine in a duration-bisection procedure across multiple duration ranges. The psychometric functions obtained from this procedure relate the proportion 'long' responses to signal durations spaced between a pair of 'short' and 'long' anchor durations. Horizontal shifts in these functions can be described in terms of attention or arousal processes depending upon whether they are a fixed number of seconds independent of the timed durations (additive) or proportional to the durations being timed (multiplicative). Multiplicative effects are thought to result from a change in clock speed that is regulated by dopamine activity in the medial prefrontal cortex. These dopaminergic effects are discussed within the context of the striatal beat frequency model of interval timing (Matell & Meck, 2004: Cogn. Brain Res., 21, 139-170) and clinical implications for the effects of emotional reactivity on temporal cognition (Parker et al., 2013: Front. Integr. Neurosci., 7, 75).

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Duration perception of emotional stimuli: Using evaluative conditioning to avoid sensory confounds

Cited by 24 publications

References 73 publications

Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception

Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception

The complex duration perception of emotional faces: effects of face direction

Clock Speed as a Window into Dopaminergic Control of Emotion and Time Perception

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