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Accurately keeping track of time is indispensable in everyday live, yet being distracted alters subjective durations. It has been hypothesized that distracted attention decreases the speed of temporal processing. Therefore, when reproducing earlier learned durations, distracted participants tend to overreproduce them. However, other studies show that this effect is driven by not enough attention being directed to the temporal information around the time a response is required. Furthermore, most studies test these hypotheses using laboratory experiments that do not always capture the task demands and temporal dynamics of real-world behavior. The current study investigates timing behavior during a ecologically valid task: driving a car in a simulator. Participants simultaneously perform an interval reproduction task while the difficulty of the driving task is dynamically manipulated. We hypothesize participants will overreproduce intervals when the driving task becomes more demanding, but mainly when the demanding periods occur towards the end of the intervals. This would indicate that responding based on a subjective representation of time is affected when driving becomes more difficult, but not neccesarily the subjective representation itself. These results will further inform us about the dynamics of distorted subjective time in ecologically valid settings.

interaction between the meaning of pantomimes and words when the visuo-spatial and perceptual information of these last is enhanced. We recorded behavioral and electrophysiological responses with a cross-modal repetition priming. Pantomimes of objects and actions were used to prime visually presented nouns and verbs with an image formation task. The behavioral results showed that the image formation times of words primed by a preceding gesture were faster in the matching meaning condition than in the mismatching one. Electrophysiological results confirmed the interaction between gesture and word meanings showing a N400 localized all over the scalp with a peak on the left anterior hemisphere. Overall, these results support the idea of a tight interplay between the meaning of pantomimes and words when perceptual information is enhanced in words at both the behavioral and neurophysiological levels.