Movement-Contingent Time Flow in Virtual Reality Causes Temporal Recalibration.

ABSTRACT: Virtual reality (VR) provides a valuable research tool for studying what occurs when sensorimotor feedback loops are manipulated. Here we measured whether exposure to a novel temporal relationship between action and sensory reaction in VR causes recalibration of time perception. We asked 31 participants to perform time perception tasks where the interval of a moving probe was reproduced using continuous or discrete motor methods. These time perception tasks were completed pre- and post-exposure to dynamic VR content in a block-counterbalanced order. One group of participants experienced a standard VR task ("normal-time"), while another group had their real-world movements coupled to the flow of time in the virtual space ("movement contingent time-flow; MCTF"). We expected this novel action

SUBMITTER: Bansal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416345 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature