Retrospective duration judgments of naturalistic events depend on memories of event boundaries.

ABSTRACT: Daily planning and goal-directed behavior rely on accurate judgments of the duration of past experience. However, retrospective duration judgments are often inaccurate. At the same time, our memory of these experiences transforms over time, with memory forgetting being a common occurrence. In this case, whether and how changes in episodic memory impact duration judgments? Here, participants watched videos depicting daily events with clear boundaries segmenting each subevent. Participants then completed recall and duration judgment tasks both immediately and after 7 days. For whole events, results showed that the recall of the event structure, specifically the number of subevents, significantly influenced immediate and delayed duration judgments. In contrast, event content memories, includi

SUBMITTER: Yue WWY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12769706 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature