A Quantitative Model for Retrospective Subjective Duration

Eisler, Anna D.; Eisler, Hannes; Montgomery, Henry

doi:10.14704/nq.2004.2.4.51

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“…In situations in which participants are asked to judge time explicitly, cognitive psychologists make a distinction between two paradigms: one in which participants are informed before they perform the task that they are required to make a time-related judgment (prospective timing), and the other in which they receive no prior warning (retrospective timing) (see Brown & Stubbs, 1988;A. D. Eisler, H. Eisler, & Montgomery, 2004;Hicks, Miller, & Kinsbourne, 1976;Predebon, 1996).…”

Section: General Paradigms: Prospective Versus Retrospectivementioning

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Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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670

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Suppose someone had to prepare a review article on visual perception, instead of time perception. This individual would probably ask for a series of reviews, with at least one-and probably several-dedicated to color, distance, shape, and motion perception, and maybe to other aspects of visual perception. It would be very difficult to complete the same exercise for time perception since the categories of temporal experiences are not as clearly defined. However, for a reader to understand the scope of a text on time perception, it is essential to develop a representation of what the main research avenues or categories are. The present text should help the reader to grasp the scope of recent literature related to psychological time and time perception.After a brief overview of the various perspectives on what could be meant by psychological time, the review will propose to identify of series of key concepts and empirical findings that should delineate the field of time perception and timing, and will discuss some models of time perception. The article also provides a review of the main recent findings in the field in which a neuroscientific approach to timing is adopted. In this section, the roles of the cerebellum, of the cerebral cortices, and of the basal ganglia in the timing processes are emphasized. Time Perception Beyond the Focus of the Present ReviewThere is a wide range of research on psychological time and temporal processing, mainly because of the ubiquity of time in behavior and the relevance of a temporal perspective in regard to living organisms and events. There is a vast literature in social psychology as to how behavior is shaped by time (see Perret-Clermont, 2005, or Strathman & Joireman, 2005, which includes topics such as time management, time perspective, and time orientation, or the relative value of past and future (Caruso, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2008;Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Even within the scope of experimental psychology, some studies have emphasized how the temporal structure of events determines our perception of the world (see the second part of Helfrich, 2003).Some authors who are interested in consciousness have adopted a phenomenological perspective on time (see the first part of Buccheri, Saniga, & Stuckey, 2003). Indeed, time and consciousness have become more closely linked recently with the development of a new area of research on the concept of chronesthesia (awareness of subjective time; Tulving, 2002), as opposed to noetic consciousness (awareness of the world) or autonoetic consciousness (awareness of self in time). Interestingly, there is now evidence that even animals can anticipate the future (Roberts, 2008).There are many psychological time studies related in various ways to memory processes (Block & Zakay, 2008). One research avenue deals with the chronology of events in our lives, particularly the memory of the order of occurrence of these events (Damasio, 2002;Friedman, 1993 The aim of the present review article is to guide the reader through portions of the human time per...

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Section: General Paradigms: Prospective Versus Retrospectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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670

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“…Eisler et al, 2007). However, most of them find that the exponential term is close to 1, implying that the non-linearities are small (e.g.…”

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Over-reporting vs. overreacting: Commuters’ perceptions of travel times

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Koster

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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Retrospective timing refers to conditions where participants do not know in advance, i.e., before a period filled with various activities, that the duration of the period will have to be estimated (Brown and Stubbs, 1988;Eisler et al, 2004;Hicks, 1992;Hicks et al, 1976;Block, 1997, 2004). In most time perception research, participants are placed in conditions where they know in advance (prospective condition) that they will have to estimate intervals, which are usually very brief-from ms to a few seconds.…”

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Remembering the Duration of Joyful and Sad Musical Excerpts: Assessment with Three Estimation Methods

Bisson¹,

Tobin²,

Grondin³

2008

Neuroquantology

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Sixty participants were asked to listen to two musical excerpts, one expected to generate joy and the other to generate sadness, and to complete a cognitive task between the musical excerpts. The task and excerpts lasted 180, 300, or 420 seconds. After listening to the excerpts and completing the cognitive task, the participants were asked to estimate retrospectively the duration of each excerpt and the cognitive task on the basis of three methods: verbal estimates (chronometric units), relative estimates of the three tasks based on the segmentation of a line, and estimates with line drawing in comparison with a standard line. Participants judged the duration of the joyful musical excerpt as longer than that of the cognitive task and systematically underestimated the duration of the cognitive task, i.e., judged it to be much briefer than it really was. This basic finding was consistent over the three methods. The sadness excerpt led to longer perceived duration than the cognitive condition only with the verbal and relative estimates methods. Also, there were systematic underestimations of long intervals and overestimations of short intervals in all conditions, except with the method involving a standard in the specific case of sadness. In general, there was more consistency between the verbal and relative methods than between the verbal method and the one based on the comparison with a standard.

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A Quantitative Model for Retrospective Subjective Duration

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Over-reporting vs. overreacting: Commuters’ perceptions of travel times

Remembering the Duration of Joyful and Sad Musical Excerpts: Assessment with Three Estimation Methods

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