Time Perception of an Artwork’s Manipulation Is Distorted by Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

Objectives: In artwork appreciation situations, individuals often show altered time perception. We tested the hypothesis that Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients present movement patterns that have an impact on the time perception of artwork manipulation time. We predicted that, compared to healthy controls (non-PD), differences in the exploratory behavior of patients would evoke alteration of artwork manipulation time perception.Methods: Ten PD patients and 10 non-PD participants manipulated two reproductions of artwork with different complexity levels from the series “Bichos” by Lygia Clark. Subsequently, participants performed a verbal estimation regarding the temporal duration of their manipulations. The exploratory behavior was analyzed.Results: All participants overestimated the artwork manipulation time. However, PD patients, regardless of the artwork’s level of complexity, showed shorter manipulation time and minor time overestimation compared to the non-PD participants. PD patients touched the artworks more often, especially the more complex artworks, than the non-PD participants; in contrast, PD patients moved the artworks less often, particularly the less complex artwork.Conclusion: PD patients showed an altered perception of artwork manipulation time. This suggests that exploratory behavior influenced temporal estimation. Besides, it is likely that PD patients had presented a decreased ability to manage attention during the task, which interfered in the cognitive reconstruction of its duration. Considered altogether, these appointments indicate that, as a result of cognitive and motor deficits, PD patients showed impairment in temporal information processing. The exploratory behavior facilitated the understanding of these results and processes in terms of motor-timing operations of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical system.

Review: Subjective Time Perception, Dopamine Signaling, and Parkinsonian Slowness

“…Altered integrations, in PD, have been variously reported between sensory input [including a study with distractor stimuli ( 89 )], motor performance, and memory or other cognitive tasks [( 58 , 60 , 62 , 68 , 90 – 105 ), see ( 64 , 65 , 106 ) for reviews; Table 1 summarizes these particular studies]. In the spirit of context-dependent studies in explicit timing tasks (described above), PD may increase the perceived duration not of time, but of an action [( 45 ), but see ( 105 ) for a contrary view]; may corroborate a migration effect (overestimation of short intervals, underestimation of long ones), especially when an emotionally salient event is being timed ( 71 ); may not increase the time of anticipatory eye movements ( 98 ); may shorten latency to acoustic startle ( 96 ); may prolong the perception of syntax in a piece of music ( 91 ); may prolong time spent in the appreciation of works of art ( 107 ); and may alter the subjective rating of an aural rhythm's complexity, depending on beat frequency ( 84 ).…”

A influência de manipulações de parâmetros de estrutura musical de modo e andamento na percepção subjetiva de tempo

“…Muitos pesquisadores realizaram o estudo do tempo subjetivo com estímulos musicais (Bailey & Areni, 2006;Boltz, 1989;Droit-Volet, Bigand, Ramos & Bueno (2010); Droit-Volet et al, 2013;Firmino & Bueno, 2008, 2016Firmino, Campagnoli, & Bueno, 2020;Jones & Boltz, 1989;Ramos et al, 2011;Ramos & Bueno 2012b;Schmuckler & Boltz, 1994), com estimulação tátil (Casilimas-Díaz & Bueno, 2019), manipulações de obras de arte (Bueno, Motta, & Tumas, 2019) e percepção de movimentos Nather, Bueno, Bigand, & Droit-Volet, 2011;Nather, Fernandes, & Bueno, 2014;Nather, Mecca, & Bueno, 2013). A pesquisa de Ramos e Bueno (2012b) analisou se emoções percebidas durante uma escuta musical poderiam influenciar a percepção subjetiva do tempo.…”