Reproduction of duration: How should I count the ways?

Joseph Glicksohn, Rotem Leshem

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Abstract

We take a close look at the task of prospective time reproduction, wherein an individual is aware of the fact that she will subsequently be asked to reproduce a demarked duration. Our participants were either explicitly instructed not to count, or were allowed to count. When participants are allowed to count, their reproductions (R) tend to be a linear function of target duration (D). When instructed not to count, they exhibited a shorter log(R) mean value than those who were allowed to count. Participants not counting are thus less veridical in time estimation. Given that for them β<1, this suggests that subjective time for them is not a linear function of physical time. We further contrast four major indices relating reproduced time to target duration: R/D, D/R, |R-D|, and |R-D|/D. While the D/R ratio score detected the difference between groups; this was not the case for the other measures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception - COST TD0904 International Workshop, Revised Selected Papers
Pages79-91
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventCOST TD0904 International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception - Athens, Greece
Duration: 7 Oct 20108 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6789 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceCOST TD0904 International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period7/10/108/10/10

Bibliographical note

Place of conference:Athens, Greece

Keywords

  • Absolute discrepancy
  • Absolute error
  • Psychophysics
  • Ratio score
  • Time estimation
  • Time reproduction

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