Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: the role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time
Jia, L. and Shi, Z. and Zang, X. and Muller, Hermann J. (2015) Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: the role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 77 (8), pp. 2768-2780. ISSN 1943-3921.
Abstract
Although it is well established that action contexts can expand the perceived durations of action-related events, whether action contexts also impact the subjective duration of events unrelated to the action remains an open issue. Here we examined how the automatic implicit reactions induced by viewing task-irrelevant, real moving objects influence tactile duration judgments. Participants were asked to make temporal bisection judgments of a tactile event while seeing a potentially catchable swinging ball. Approaching movement induced a tactile-duration overestimation relative to lateral movement and to a static baseline, and receding movement produced an expansion similar in duration to that from approaching movement. Interestingly, the effect of approaching movement on the subjective tactile duration was greatly reduced when participants held lightweight objects in their hands, relative to a hands-free condition, whereas no difference was obtained in the tactile-duration estimates between static hands-free and static hands-occupied conditions. The results indicate that duration perception is determined by internal bodily states as well as by sensory evidence.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Duration, estimation, Bodily states, Embodiment, Crossmodal interaction, Temporal processing, Embodied perception |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 13:23 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:25 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15700 |
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