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Published October 2006 | Published
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Visual onset expands subjective time

Abstract

We report a distortion of subjective time perception in which the duration of a first interval is perceived to be longer than the succeeding interval of the same duration. The amount of time expansion depends on the onset type defining the first interval. When a stimulus appears abruptly, its duration is perceived to be longer than when it appears following a stationary array. The difference in the processing time for the stimulus onset and motion onset, measured as reaction times, agrees with the difference in time expansion. Our results suggest that initial transient responses for a visual onset serve as a temporal marker for time estimation, and a systematic change in the processing time for onsets affects perceived time.

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© Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2006. Manuscript received January 27, 2005; revision accepted for publication November 1, 2005. We thank Daw-An Wu, Concetta Morrone, Shin'ya Nishida, David Rose, and Shinsuke Shimojo for discussion and comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.

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