Cognitive effects on experienced duration and speed of time, prospectively, retrospectively, in and out of lockdown.

ABSTRACT: Psychological time is influenced by multiple factors such as arousal, emotion, attention and memory. While laboratory observations are well documented, it remains unclear whether cognitive effects on time perception replicate in real-life settings. This study exploits a set of data collected online during the Covid-19 pandemic, where participants completed a verbal working memory (WM) task in which their cognitive load was manipulated using a parametric n-back (1-back, 3-back). At the end of every WM trial, participants estimated the duration of that trial and rated the speed at which they perceived time was passing. In this within-participant design, we initially tested whether the amount of information stored in WM affected time perception in opposite directions depending on whether dura

SUBMITTER: Nicolai C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805715 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature