It's time to take the psychology of biological time into account: speed of driving affects a trip's subjective duration

Rijn, Hedderik eVan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01028

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“…It has been proposed that the amplitude of the CNV reflects accrual of subjective temporal information (Macar et al, 1999;Wittman, 2013). However, recent empirical work has questioned this assumption (e.g., Kononowicz and Van Rijn, 2011, Van Rijn, 2014. In our earlier work , we did not find any evidence for a relation between the estimated duration and the CNV amplitude, but we did find habituation effects in the CNV -a finding at odds with an accumulation account.…”

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“…Perceiving the passage of time is an ubiquitous experience and a building block for other cognitive processes and behaviors such as controlling movements in time (Allman et al, 2014;van Wassenhove, 2009), both in well-controlled laboratory settings and in tasks with higher external validity Van Rijn, 2014). However, the neural underpinnings of these abilities are not yet well understood.…”

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Single trial beta oscillations index time estimation

2015

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Recent work shows that putamen-originating beta power oscillations serve as a carrier for temporal information during tapping tasks, with higher beta power associated with longer temporal reproductions. However, given the nature of tapping tasks, it is difficult to determine whether beta power dynamics observed in these tasks are linked to the generation or execution of motor programs or to the internal representation of time. To assess whether recent findings in animals generalize to human studies we reanalyzed existing EEG data of participants who estimated a 2.5s time interval with self-paced onset and offset keypresses. The results showed that the trial-to-trial beta power measured after the onset predicts the produced duration, such that higher beta power indexes longer produced durations. Moreover, although beta power measured before the first key-press also influenced the estimated interval, it did so independently from post-first-keypress beta power. These results suggest that initial motor inhibition plays an important role in interval production, and that this inhibition can be interpreted as a biased starting point of the decision processes involved in time estimation.

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“…These results thus indicate that findings observed in the traditional literature might be specific to simple, static stimuli, and not generalize to more realistic stimuli. This suggestion is supported by results of a “real-world” experimental paradigm in which the effect of speed of driving on time perception was estimated (van Rijn, 2014). Video snippets from a recording of a driving simulator session served as stimuli (driver’s perspective), and were played at either original, faster or slower speed.…”

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“…In addition, unlike the focused setting of experimental studies, interval timing in the real world is usually embedded in a context consisting of many different durations associated with different subtasks perceived from the first- or third-person perspective. As a consequence, results from laboratory studies might have low external validity as it is unclear to what extent the general “laws” derived from extensive laboratory findings generalize to more complex environments (Darlow, Dylman, Gheorghiu, & Matthews, 2013; Matthews & Meck, 2014; van Rijn, 2014). Here, we report on a study that addresses the question of whether the two prominent law-like properties, scalar property and context effects, generalize to the timing of more realistic timing tasks.…”

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Temporal Context Influences the Perceived Duration of Everyday Actions: Assessing the Ecological Validity of Lab-Based Timing Phenomena

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Damsma²,

Aksoy³

et al. 2018

Journal of Cognition

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Timing is key to accurate performance, for example when learning a new complex sequence by mimicry. However, most timing research utilizes artificial tasks and simple stimuli with clearly marked onset and offset cues. Here we address the question whether existing interval timing findings generalize to real-world timing tasks. In this study, animated video clips of a person performing different everyday actions were presented and participants had to reproduce the main action's duration. Although reproduced durations are more variable then observed in laboratory studies, the data adheres to two interval timing laws: Relative timing sensitivity is constant across durations (scalar property), and the subjective duration of a previous action influenced the current action's perceived duration (temporal context effect). Taken together, this demonstrates that laboratory findings generalize, and paves the way for studying interval timing as a component of complex, everyday cognitive performance.

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“…The perceived duration of intervals of hundreds of milliseconds to a few seconds—a time scale in which many daily live actions unfold—is distorted by the dynamics of visual stimulation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 . It is unclear, however, which aspect of the dynamics is critical in perceived duration distortions and hence, which are the underpinning mechanisms and possible function of such distortions.…”

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Temporal frequency of events rather than speed dilates perceived duration of moving objects

Linares

Goréa

2015

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In everyday life moving objects often follow irregular or repetitive trajectories for which distinctive events are potentially noticeable. It is known that the perceived duration of moving objects is distorted, but whether the distortion is due to the temporal frequency of the events or to the speed of the objects remains unclear. Disentangling the contribution of these factors to perceived duration distortions is ecologically relevant: if perceived duration were dependent on speed, it should contract with the distance from the observer to the moving objects. Here, we asked observers to estimate the perceived duration of an object rotating at different speeds and radii and found that perceived duration dilated with temporal frequency of rotations, rather than speed (or perceived speed, which we also measured). We also found that the dilation was larger for two than for one object, but the increase was not large enough to make perceived duration independent of the number of objects when expressed as a function of the local frequency (the number of times an object crossed a given location per time unit). These results suggest that perceived duration of natural stimuli containing distinctive events doesn't depend on the distance of the events to the observer.

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It's time to take the psychology of biological time into account: speed of driving affects a trip's subjective duration

Cited by 21 publications

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Single trial beta oscillations index time estimation

Single trial beta oscillations index time estimation

Temporal Context Influences the Perceived Duration of Everyday Actions: Assessing the Ecological Validity of Lab-Based Timing Phenomena

Temporal frequency of events rather than speed dilates perceived duration of moving objects

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