Dilation and Constriction of Subjective Time Based on Observed Walking Speed.

ABSTRACT: The physical properties of events are known to modulate perceived time. This study tested the effect of different quantitative (walking speed) and qualitative (walking-forward vs. walking-backward) features of observed motion on time perception in three complementary experiments. Participants were tested in the temporal discrimination (bisection) task, in which they were asked to categorize durations of walking animations as "short" or "long." We predicted the faster observed walking to speed up temporal integration and thereby to shift the point of subjective equality leftward, and this effect to increase monotonically with increasing walking speed. To this end, we tested participants with two different ranges of walking speeds in Experiment 1 and 2 and observed a parametric

SUBMITTER: Karsılar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6309241 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature