As time passes by: observed motion-speed and psychological time during video playback

Nyman, T. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6409-2528, Karlsson, E. P. A. and Antfolk, J. (2017) As time passes by: observed motion-speed and psychological time during video playback. PLoS ONE, 12 (6). e0177855. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177855

Abstract/Summary

Research shows that psychological time (i.e., the subjective experience and assessment of the passage of time) is malleable and that the central nervous system re-calibrates temporal information in accordance with situational factors so that psychological time flows slower or faster. Observed motion-speed (e.g., the visual perception of a rolling ball) is an important situational factor which influences the production of time estimates. The present study examines previous findings showing that observed slow and fast motion-speed during video playback respectively results in over- and underproductions of intervals of time. Here, we investigated through three separate experiments: a) the main effect of observed motion-speed during video playback on a time production task and b) the interactive effect of the frame rate (frames per second; fps) and motion-speed during video playback on a time production task. No main effect of video playback-speed or interactive effect between video playback-speed and frame rate was found on time production.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/118721
Identification Number/DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0177855
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Publisher	Public Library of Science
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