Prospective time estimation over a night without sleep

Esposito, Maria José; Natale, Vincenzo; Martoni, Monica; Occhionero, Miranda; Fabbri, Marco; Cicogna, Piera Carla

doi:10.1080/09291010601068776

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“…During a night without sleep, differences between chronotypes were observed in a prospective time estimation task. Specifically, morning‐types tended to produce shorter time intervals and reported a lower time estimation accuracy than evening‐types (Esposito et al., 2007). A possible interpretation of these findings could be that longer time estimations produced by the evening‐types reflected a slower time flow, whereas morning‐types exhibited a faster time flow (i.e., shorter time intervals).…”

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Morningness‐Eveningness Preference, Time Perspective, and Passage of Time Judgments

2022

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Recent studies have shown that making accurate passage of time judgments (POTJs) for long‐time intervals is an important cognitive ability. Different temporal domains, such as circadian typology (biological time) and time perspective (psychological time), could have an effect on subjective POTJs, but few studies have investigated the reciprocal influences among these temporal domains. The present study is the first systematic attempt to fill this gap. A sample of 222 participants (53.20% females; 19–60 years) filled in the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory for the measurement of time perspective, the reduced version of the Morningness‐Eveningness Questionnaire (rMEQ) for chronotypes, and an ad‐hoc questionnaire assessing sleep habits during weekdays and the weekend (for social jetlag). The POTJ was measured using a modified version of a pictorial timeline presented at five different moments. Also, participants judged how different temporal expressions were related to the past, present, and future along a 7‐point Likert scale. After confirming the association between eveningness and present‐hedonism orientation and morningness and future‐orientation, we found that evening‐types produced higher scores for future expressions. The subjective POTJ expressed in minutes was predicted by Deviation from Balanced Time (DBTP), present‐fatalism orientation, and social jetlag. Finally, the rMEQ score, past‐positive orientation, and DBTP predicted the difference between subjective and objective POT. The results are discussed offering an explanation in terms of the interconnections between circadian typology, individual time perspective, and the sense of the POT, suggesting the multicomponent nature of the concept of time.

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Morningness‐Eveningness Preference, Time Perspective, and Passage of Time Judgments

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“…In contrast, Pati and Gupta in 10 subjects, under everyday conditions and employing a counting strategy, reported a parallel oscillation of 10 s production with core body temperature (Pati and Gupta, 1994 ) and Esposito et al, using a 15-s rhythmisizing task on 54 subjects across one night of sustained wakefulness found neither circadian nor sleep-homeostatic effects (Esposito et al, 2007 ).…”

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“…The reports on supportive evidence cited above are not free of methodological problems and are pitted against a number of studies relating negative or ambiguous results (Esposito et al, 2007 ; Späti, 2011 ; Pande et al, 2014 ), a situation that, according to some authors can, in part, be attributed to methodological and terminological incompatibilities across studies (Pande and Pati, 2010 ; Späti, 2011 ; Miguel, 2012 ; Moore and Gunzelmann, 2013 ). The prevalence of study designs that employ only singular timing methods and stimulus durations, the heterogeneity of instructions to subjects regarding the timing strategy to adopt and under-powered analytical approaches don't make optimal use of resources and further limit comparability of results.…”

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Modeling circadian and sleep-homeostatic effects on short-term interval timing

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Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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Short-term interval timing i.e., perception and action relating to durations in the seconds range, has been suggested to display time-of-day as well as wake dependent fluctuations due to circadian and sleep-homeostatic changes to the rate at which an underlying pacemaker emits pulses; pertinent human data being relatively sparse and lacking in consistency however, the phenomenon remains elusive and its mechanism poorly understood. To better characterize the putative circadian and sleep-homeostatic effects on interval timing and to assess the ability of a pacemaker-based mechanism to account for the data, we measured timing performance in eighteen young healthy male subjects across two epochs of sustained wakefulness of 38.67 h each, conducted prior to (under entrained conditions) and following (under free-running conditions) a 28 h sleep-wake schedule, using the methods of duration estimation and duration production on target intervals of 10 and 40 s. Our findings of opposing oscillatory time courses across both epochs of sustained wakefulness that combine with increasing and, respectively, decreasing, saturating exponential change for the tasks of estimation and production are consistent with the hypothesis that a pacemaker emitting pulses at a rate controlled by the circadian oscillator and increasing with time awake determines human short-term interval timing; the duration-specificity of this pattern is interpreted as reflecting challenges to maintaining stable attention to the task that progressively increase with stimulus magnitude and thereby moderate the effects of pacemaker-rate changes on overt behavior.

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“…Other variables that modulate human time perception are: mood (Angrilli et al 1997), hormones such as adrenaline (Wright 2002), diseases like Parkinsonism (Pastor et al 1992;Malapani et al 1993) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (Baldwin et al 2004). An individual's chronotype (Esposito et al 2007) and the time of day also influence the cognitive ability to judge short time intervals (Pati and Gupta 1994;Kuriyama et al 2003Kuriyama et al , 2005Pande et al 2011).…”

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