The relationship between pain-induced autonomic arousal and perceived duration.

Piovesan, Andrea; Mirams, Laura; Poole, Helen; Moore, David; Ogden, Ruth S.

doi:10.1037/emo0000512

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“…The robustness of temporal discrimination to ToT-related changes in vagal activity is in line with the findings of recent studies showing that vagus-mediated HRV is associated with temporal perception mainly if the temporal stimulus per se is a source of arousal (e.g., an emotional picture; Piovesan et al, 2018; Ogden et al, 2019). Accordingly, in the current study, we used emotionally neutral stimuli without a stimulatory effect on arousal and probably having a weaker association with vagal-mediated HRV functions.…”

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Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

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The modality appropriateness hypothesis argues that the auditory modality is preferred over the visual modality in tasks demanding temporal operations; hence, we predicted that responses to visual stimuli would be more sensitive to the detrimental effect of Time-on-Task. We used a bimodal temporal discrimination task. The factors were durational congruency between the modalities and the direction of modality-transmission. Participants needed to decide the duration of the cued stimulus (visual or auditory). The first five blocks of the task lasted about 1.5 h without rest [Time-on-Task (ToT) period]. The participants then had a 12-min break followed by an additional block of trials. Subjective fatigue, reaction time, error rates, and electrocardiographic data were recorded. In the visual modality, we found an enhanced congruency effect as a function of ToT. The cost of attentional shifting was higher in the auditory modality, but remained constant, suggesting that processing of auditory stimuli is robust against the effects of fatigue. Performance did not improve after the break, indicating that the effects of fatigue could not be overcome by taking a brief break. The heart rate variability (HRV) data showed that vagal inhibition increased with ToT, but this increase was not associated with the changes in performance.

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Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

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“…Further, where task difficulty is either unknown (Richter & Gendolla, 2009) or user-defined (Wright, Killebrew, & Pimpalapure, 2002) mirroring the adaptive coping situation in sequential decisions sympathetic states uniquely track reward relevance, suggesting they may be involved with learning the opportunity cost of an environment. Such a link would be supported by recent perceived duration studies reporting a specific association between sympathetic activation and the overestimation of the duration of a painful stimulus (electro-cutaneous stimulation; Piovesan, Mirams, Poole, Moore, & Ogden, 2018). In addition, the association between sympathetic activation and duration overestimation appears to be specific to adaptive events of negative valence, for example, reporting the duration of the presentation of a high-arousal, negative-valence image (a mutilated body) versus a neutral or positive image (Ogden, Henderson, McGlone, & Richter, 2019;van Hedger, Necka, Barakzai, & Norman, 2017).…”

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Sympathetic involvement in time-constrained sequential foraging

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Appraising sequential offers relative to an unknown future opportunity and a time cost requires an optimization policy that draws on a learned estimate of an environment's richness. Converging evidence points to a learning asymmetry, whereby estimates of this richness update with a bias toward integrating positive information. We replicate this bias in a sequential foraging (prey selection) task and probe associated activation within the sympathetic branch of the autonomic system, using trial-by-trial measures of simultaneously recorded cardiac autonomic physiology. We reveal a unique adaptive role for the sympathetic branch in learning. It was specifically associated with adaptation to a deteriorating environment: it correlated with both the rate of negative information integration in belief estimates and downward changes in moment-to-moment environmental richness, and was predictive of optimal performance on the task. The findings are consistent with a framework whereby autonomic function supports the learning demands of prey selection.

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“…Critically, the bottom-up relationship between arousal and perceived duration proposed in these models implies that any increase in physiological arousal should subjectively lengthen perceived duration and any reduction in physiological arousal should subjectively shorten perceived duration. However, recent studies directly testing the relationship between physiological arousal (SNS and PSNS reactivity) and emotional distortions to time, have failed to demonstrate this universally for all types of emotional stimuli [29, 30].…”

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“…More recently, Piovesan et al, (2018) [30] tested the relationship between SNS (indexed by skin conductance level) and PSNS activity (indexed by HF-HRV) and distortions to the perceived duration of painful stimuli. In two experiments, participants estimated the duration electro-cutaneous stimulation delivered at levels inducing no pain, low pain and high pain (experiment 1), or, participants estimated the duration of a neutral visual stimulus whilst experiencing continuous thermal pain delivered at levels inducing no pain, low pain and high pain (experiment 2).…”

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Time distortion under threat: Sympathetic arousal predicts time distortion only in the context of negative, highly arousing stimuli

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Theoretical models of time perception suggest a simple bottom-up relationship between physiological arousal and perceived duration. Increases in physiological arousal lengthen the perceived duration of events whereas decreases in physiological arousal reduce them. Whilst this relationship has been demonstrated for highly arousing negatively valenced stimuli, it has not been demonstrated for other classes of distorting stimuli (e.g. positively valenced or low arousal stimuli). The current study tested the effect of valence (positive and negative) and arousal level (high and low) on the relationship between physiological arousal and perceived duration. Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) activity was measured during a verbal estimation task in which participants judged the duration of high and low arousal, positive, negative and neutrally valenced IAPS images. SNS and PSNS activity were indexed by measuring Pre-Ejection Period (PEP) and High Frequency Heart-rate Variability (HF-HRV) respectively. SNS reactivity was predicative of perceived duration, but only for high arousal negatively valenced stimuli, with decreases in PEP being associated with longer duration estimates. SNS and PSNS activity was not predictive of perceived duration for the low arousal negative stimuli or the low and high arousal positive stimuli. We therefore propose a new model suggesting that emotional distortions to time result from a combination of bottom-up (physiological arousal) and top-down (threat detection) factors.

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The relationship between pain-induced autonomic arousal and perceived duration.

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Cited by 58 publications

References 68 publications

Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

Sympathetic involvement in time-constrained sequential foraging

Time distortion under threat: Sympathetic arousal predicts time distortion only in the context of negative, highly arousing stimuli

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