Chronométrage et perception temporelle.

Abstract

This article provides an overview of some contemporary research avenues in the field of timing and time perception. After a brief description of different categories of temporal experiences, the article describes how research on psychological time falls within a psychophysical perspective. Next, some factors changing sensitivity to time or perceived duration are reported. Four main sources affecting this sensitivity are identified : the modality in which the intervals to be estimated are marked, the length of the markers, the number of intervals presented, and whether people are counting explicitly or not when estimating time. When emphasis is placed on the perceived duration of intervals, 3 important factors of influence are retained: attention, the space between markers and emotion and its expression. The biological bases required for processing temporal information are then briefly reviewed, and the article ends with the description of perturbations of the relation to time in some pathologies (schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and depression). (PsycINFO Database Record

Training the attentional blink: subclinical depression decreases learning potential

“…Others though did find that depression seemed to have a negative impact on performance in a time estimation task. For instance, some studies found that emotional disordered patients tended to overestimate time (Grondin, 2017;Wyrick & Wyrick, 1977), while others reported a larger error in performance (i.e., a mixture of overestimation and underestimation of time) (Dilling & Rabin, 1967;Kuhs et al, 1989Kuhs et al, , 1991. Our results are in line with the idea that depression level does not influence the ability to estimate time directly (Bech, 1975;Kitamura & Kumar, 1983;Mezey & Cohen, 1961), but instead seems to affect one's ability to improve time estimation and temporal attention.…”