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Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception
- Source :
- Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 64
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Like other senses, our perception of time is not veridical, but rather, is modulated by changes in environmental context. Anecdotal experiences suggest that emotions can be powerful modulators of time perception; nevertheless, the functional and neural mechanisms underlying emotion-induced temporal distortions remain unclear. Widely accepted pacemaker-accumulator models of time perception suggest that changes in arousal and attention have unique influences on temporal judgments and contribute to emotional distortions of time perception. However, such models conflict with current views of arousal and attention suggesting that current models of time perception do not adequately explain the variability in emotion-induced temporal distortions. Instead, findings provide support for a new perspective of emotion-induced temporal distortions that emphasizes both the unique and interactive influences of arousal and attention on time perception over time. Using this framework, we discuss plausible functional and neural mechanisms of emotion-induced temporal distortions and how these temporal distortions may have important implications for our understanding of how emotions modulate our perceptual experiences in service of adaptive responding to biologically relevant stimuli.
- Subjects :
- genetic structures
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Emotions
Context (language use)
Article
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Arousal
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
Animals
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
media_common
05 social sciences
Perspective (graphical)
Brain
Time perception
Emotional modulation
Interval (music)
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Time Perception
sense organs
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18737528
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1da2aae3135006b3155f2856de36e5bd