How emotions colour our perception of time

Droit‐Volet, Sylvie; Meck, Warren H.

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2007.09.008

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“…In line with this idea, found that when very young children (3 years old) devoid of reflexive thought on time's passage were shown angry faces, they displayed adult-like time distortions. Furthermore, although sadness is judged to modify the passage of time, no clear effect of sadness (induced by different technics) has ever been reported on time perception (Droit-Volet, Brunot & Niedenthal, 2004;DroitVolet, Fayolle & Gil, 2011;Droit-Volet & Meck, 2007;Gil & Droit-Volet, 2011a). In conclusion, these different results point to a clear distinction in humans between the awareness of the effects of emotion on the subjective experience of time (sense of time's passage) and the implicit effects of emotion on the perception of durations of a few hundred milliseconds or seconds.…”

Section: Subjective Experience Of Time's Passage and Affective Disordersmentioning

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Time, Emotion and the Embodiment of Timing

Droit‐Volet

Fayolle

Lamotte

et al. 2013

Timing Time Percept

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The past few decades have seen an explosion in studies exploring the effects of emotion on time judgments. The aim of this review is to describe the results of these studies and to look at how they try to explain the time distortions produced by emotion. We begin by examining the findings on time judgments in affective disorders, which allow us to make a clear distinction between the feelings of time distortion that originate from introspection onto subjective personal experience, and the effects of emotion on the basic mechanisms involved in time perception. We then report the results of behavioral studies that have tested the effects of emotions on time perceptions and the temporal processing of different emotional stimuli (e.g. facial expressions, affective pictures or sounds). Finally, we describe our own studies of the embodiment of timing. Overall, the different results on time and emotion suggest that temporal distortions are an indicator of how our brain and body adapt to the dynamic structure of our environment.

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Section: Subjective Experience Of Time's Passage and Affective Disordersmentioning

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Time, Emotion and the Embodiment of Timing

Droit‐Volet

Fayolle

Lamotte

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“…Prospective estimates of duration may vary considerably dependent on the cognitive and emotional state of the individual [3,5]. For example, in situations such as when we are bored or anticipating an unpleasant event to happen, time subjectively slows down and we tend to overestimate time.…”

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“…While objective time progresses linearly in constant units, subjective processing of time may be affected by mental distress or the emotional state of the individual [3][4][5][6]. Studying different aspects of temporal processing can thus contribute to a better understanding of the psychological experience of emotions and emotional disorders and underlying mechanisms of temporal processing in normal and clinical populations.…”

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Insights into features of anxiety through multiple aspects of psychological time

Åström¹,

Wiberg²,

Sircova³

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J Integr Psychol Ther

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Background: It is well-recognized that emotions and emotional disorders may alter the experience of time. Yet relatively little is known about different aspects of psychological time in relation to anxiety. The purpose of the present study was to explore several aspects of temporal processing, including time perspective, prospective and retrospective time estimation, in persons with anxiety symptoms. Methods: A total of 110 individuals with varying degrees of anxiety participated in two studies. They were assigned to two groups (anxiety-control) based on their scores on anxiety measurements. Participants also completed an inventory of time perspective and several time estimation tasks which were analyzed on a group-level. Depressive symptoms were assessed and used as a covariate in the second study. Results: Anxiety was significantly associated with Past Negative and Future Negative time perspectives as measured by the Swedish Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI), even when controlling for the effect of depressive symptoms. No other significant differences were found. Conclusion: Exploring time perspective in persons with anxious symptoms may provide important insights into features of anxiety. These findings may offer new ways of conceptualizing anxiety and provide suggestions for treatment strategies.

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“…Striatal medium spiny neurons detect the coincident activity of specific beat patterns of cortical oscillations (Matell and Meck, 2004;Meck, 2006). Current evidence suggests that the pacemaker or internal clock which mediates the perception of short durations is sensitive to temperature, attention, emotions, drug and diet manipulations (e.g., Wearden and Penton-Voak, 1995;Cheng et al, 2006;Droit-Volet and Meck, 2007), all of which can be modulated by circadian rhythms. Although the suprachiasmatic nuclei appear to be unnecessary for interval timing (Lewis et al, 2003), time of day effects have been observed for the timing of auditory and visual signals in the seconds-to-minutes range (Aschoff, 1985;Chandrashekaran et al, 1991;Pati and Gupta, 1994;Meck, 1991).…”

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Circadian modulation of interval timing in mice

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Temporal perception is fundamental to environmental adaptation in humans and other animals. To deal with timing and time perception, organisms have developed multiple systems that are active over a broad range of order of magnitude, the most important being circadian timing, interval timing and millisecond timing. The circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus, and is driven by a selfsustaining oscillator with a period close to 24 h. Time estimation in the second-to-minutes range -known as interval timing -involves the interaction of the basal ganglia and the prefrontal cortex. In this work we tested the hypothesis that interval timing in mice is sensitive to circadian modulations. Animals were trained following the peak-interval (PI) procedure. Results show significant differences in the estimation of 24-second intervals at different times of day, with a higher accuracy in the group trained at night, which were maintained under constant dark (DD) conditions. Interval timing was also studied in animals under constant light (LL) conditions, which abolish circadian rhythmicity. Mice under LL conditions were unable to acquire temporal control in the peak interval procedure.Moreover, short time estimation in animals subjected to circadian desynchronizations (modeling jet lag-like situations) was also affected. Taken together, our results indicate that short-time estimation is modulated by the circadian clock.© 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords:Circadian rhythms Interval timingBasal ganglia Suprachiasmatic nuclei IntroductionTiming and time perception are fundamental to survival and goal reaching in humans and other animals. Organisms have developed diverse mechanisms for timing across different scales, the most important being circadian timing, interval timing and millisecond timing . The circadian pacemaker -which is driven by a self-sustaining oscillator with a period close to 24 h -is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus (Dunlap et al., 2004), and the principal signal that adjusts its activity is the light-dark cycle (Morin and Allen, 2006;Golombek and Rosenstein, 2010). The molecular mechanism of the endogenous circadian clock is comprised by interlocked transcription-translation feedback loops (Reppert and Weaver, 2002). On the other hand, the perception of shorter durations in the seconds-to-minutes range, known as interval timing, is crucial to learning, memory, decision making and other cognitive

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How emotions colour our perception of time

Cited by 603 publications

References 54 publications

Time, Emotion and the Embodiment of Timing

Time, Emotion and the Embodiment of Timing

Insights into features of anxiety through multiple aspects of psychological time

Circadian modulation of interval timing in mice

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