Temporal Context Actively Shapes EEG Signatures of Time Perception.

ABSTRACT: Our subjective perception of time is optimized to temporal regularities in the environment. This is illustrated by the central tendency effect: When estimating a range of intervals, short intervals are overestimated, whereas long intervals are underestimated to reduce the overall estimation error. Most models of interval timing ascribe this effect to the weighting of the current interval with previous memory traces after the interval has been perceived. Alternatively, the perception of the duration could already be flexibly tuned to its temporal context. We investigated this hypothesis using an interval reproduction task in which human participants (both sexes) reproduced a shorter and longer interval range. As expected, reproductions were biased toward the subjective mean of each presente

SUBMITTER: Damsma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8152605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature