How movements shape the perception of time

Kock, Rose De; Gladhill, Keri Anne; Ali, Minaz Numa; Joiner, Wilsaan M.; Wiener, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.002

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“…Curiously, experts in motor performance, such as tennis and football players, usually report the feeling of the ball “slowing-down” just before hitting it and comment that they “see” the ball more clearly before striking it ( Murphy and White, 1978 ; Hagura et al, 2012 ). This implies that the subjective passage of time may be influenced by action, especially when participants performed movements close to their bodies ( De Kock et al, 2021 ). Supporting this evidence, in a temporal judgment task, Hagura et al (2012) found that stimuli were significantly overestimated (i.e., higher PSE values) when participants prepared for action compared with a control condition in which they had to detect visual stimuli.…”

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Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far

Candini

D'Angelo

Frassinetti

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In this study, we explored the time and space relationship according to two different spatial codings, namely, the left/right extension and the reachability of stimulus along a near/far dimension. Four experiments were carried out in which healthy participants performed the time and spatial bisection tasks in near/far space, before and after short or long tool-use training. Stimuli were prebisected horizontal lines of different temporal durations in which the midpoint was manipulated according to the Muller-Lyer illusion. The perceptual illusory effects emerged in spatial but not temporal judgments. We revealed that temporal and spatial representations dynamically change according to the action potentialities of an individual: temporal duration was perceived as shorter and the perceived line’s midpoint was shifted to the left in far than in near space. Crucially, this dissociation disappeared following a long but not short tool-use training. Finally, we observed age-related differences in spatial attention which may be crucial in building the memory temporal standard to categorize durations.

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confidence: 99%

Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far

Candini

D'Angelo

Frassinetti

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…These regions play an established role in cognitive control and sustained attention processes, necessary for successful completion of timing tasks [ 26 ]. Activation in the supplementary motor area on timing tasks has been associated with cognitive functions such as attentional allocation, with the suggestion of a rostrocaudal gradient that might be sensitive to timing duration [ 27 ]. Meanwhile, the observation of insula activation, across timescales and timing tasks (i.e., motor, perceptual), has been interpreted in favour of the direct encoding of time intervals by the posterior insula [ 28 ], while anterior insular involvement has been linked to salience detection and the integration of emotional and arousing representations to construct a subjective awareness of time [ 29 ].…”

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Subjective Time in Dementia: A Critical Review

2021

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The capacity for subjective time in humans encompasses the perception of time’s unfolding from moment to moment, as well as the ability to traverse larger temporal expanses of past- and future-oriented thought via mental time travel. Disruption in time perception can result in maladaptive outcomes—from the innocuous lapse in timing that leads to a burnt piece of toast, to the grievous miscalculation that produces a traffic accident—while disruption to mental time travel can impact core functions from planning appointments to making long-term decisions. Mounting evidence suggests that disturbances to both time perception and mental time travel are prominent in dementia syndromes. Given that such disruptions can have severe consequences for independent functioning in everyday life, here we aim to provide a comprehensive exposition of subjective timing dysfunction in dementia, with a view to informing the management of such disturbances. We consider the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning changes to both time perception and mental time travel across different dementia disorders. Moreover, we explicate the functional implications of altered subjective timing by reference to two key and representative adaptive capacities: prospective memory and intertemporal decision-making. Overall, our review sheds light on the transdiagnostic implications of subjective timing disturbances in dementia and highlights the high variability in performance across clinical syndromes and functional domains.

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“…This has important consequences for an understanding of how motor and perceptual timing interact. It is often pointed out that motor signals provide a precise metric to determine subjective time ( De Kock, Gladhill, Ali, Joiner, & Wiener, 2021 ; Merchant & Yarrow, 2016 ). However, our data suggest that such a signal can only come from a very general motor stage.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…How could motor information adapt visual time? In a recent review, De Kock et al (2021) discuss two general models explaining how movements might shape the perception of time. In the first, which they call feedforward enhancement , temporal estimates are generated within motor areas directly.…”

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Temporal perturbations cause movement-context independent but modality specific sensorimotor adaptation

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Complex, goal-directed and time-critical movements require the processing of temporal features in sensory information as well as the fine-tuned temporal interplay of several effectors. Temporal estimates used to produce such behavior may thus be obtained through perceptual or motor processes. To disentangle the two options, we tested whether adaptation to a temporal perturbation in an interval reproduction task transfers to interval reproduction tasks with varying sensory information (visual appearance of targets, modality, and virtual reality [VR] environment or real-world) or varying movement types (continuous arm movements or brief clicking movements). Halfway through the experiments we introduced a temporal perturbation, such that continuous pointing movements were artificially slowed down in VR, causing participants to adapt their behavior to sustain performance. In four experiments, we found that sensorimotor adaptation to temporal perturbations is independent of environment context and movement type, but modality specific. Our findings suggest that motor errors induced by temporal sensorimotor adaptation affect the modality specific perceptual processing of temporal estimates.

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How movements shape the perception of time

Cited by 49 publications

References 139 publications

Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far

Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far

Subjective Time in Dementia: A Critical Review

Temporal perturbations cause movement-context independent but modality specific sensorimotor adaptation

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