Stronger cortisol response to acute psychosocial stress is correlated with larger decrease in temporal sensitivity.

ABSTRACT: As a fundamental dimension of cognition and behavior, time perception has been found to be sensitive to stress. However, how one's time perception changes with responses to stress is still unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between stress-induced cortisol response and time perception. A group of 40 healthy young male adults performed a temporal bisection task before and after the Trier Social Stress Test for a stress condition. A control group of 27 male participants completed the same time perception task without stress induction. In the temporal bisection task, participants were first presented with short (400 ms) and long (1,600 ms) visual signals serving as anchor durations and then required to judge whether the intermediate probe durations were more simil

SUBMITTER: Yao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4888297 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature