Rightward and leftward biases in temporal reproduction of objects represented in central and peripheral spaces.

ABSTRACT: The basis for how we represent temporal intervals in memory remains unclear. One proposal, the mental time line theory (MTL), posits that our representation of temporal duration depends on a horizontal mental time line, thus suggesting that the representation of time has an underlying spatial component. Recent work suggests that the MTL is a learned strategy, prompting new questions of when and why MTL is used to represent temporal duration, and whether time is always represented spatially. The current study examines the hypothesis that the MTL may be a time processing strategy specific to centrally-located stimuli. In two experiments (visual eccentricity and prismatic adaptation procedures), we investigated the magnitude of the rightward bias, an index of the MTL, in central and periphera

SUBMITTER: Isham EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6013323 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature