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Where the last interval lingers: the putamen and duration serial dependence

Si Cheng’s fMRI study in NeuroImage: Reports finds that the previous interval lingers in the putamen, not visual cortex, when people reproduce durations, and that task switching recruits …

The Attentional Thief: Why an Hour of Scrolling Feels Like Half

In a stripped-down lab feed with EEG and eye tracking, a 60-second block of self-paced scrolling felt like 28 seconds, shorter than watching the same images replayed, yet memory for them was no …

Your phone steals time twice

Featured on 3sat nano, our preliminary results show that actively browsing short videos shrinks felt time far more than passively watching them, and that scrolling leaves memories too blurred to …

Duration Reproduction Under Editorial Pressure

A paper rejected by JEP:LMC after three rounds and a demanded replication, then published in Cognition: Zhuanghua Shi reflects on what the publication system costs its authors, above all PhD students.

How does saccade distort the time we experience?

Lingyue Chen’s study in Psychological Research shows that a saccade not only stretches the first event seen afterwards but also compresses the next one, a tug-of-war that intensifies the …

TEDx talk on decisions under time pressure

At TEDxTUM, Zhuanghua Shi explained how hidden time cues push us into snap decisions that scammers exploit, and how slowing down leads to more deliberate choices.

How tasks shape temporal sequential dependence

Dr. Si Cheng and colleagues show in Psychological Research that duration judgments drift toward the previous trial, and this pull grows when consecutive trials both require reproduction, but not in a …

Opposing sequential biases in time and direction perception

Si Cheng found that reproduced durations are pulled toward the previous trial while reproduced directions are pushed away, and both biases grow when the task cue arrives after the stimulus rather than …

Blocked versus interleaved: How range contexts modulate time perception and its EEG signatures

Dr. Baykan and colleagues report in Psychophysiology that blocking short and long intervals, instead of interleaving them, sharpens time estimates and produces faster, stronger CNV buildup plus a …

Talk on Understanding Time at Mainz University

Hosted by Prof. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel at Mainz University on June 12, Dr. Z. Shi explained how context and Bayesian priors bias time judgments, with CNV, LPCt and hippocampal findings from EEG and …

How range contexts modulate time perception and its EEG signatures

Presenting short and long intervals in separate blocks, rather than mixed, yields more accurate time estimates and a faster, stronger CNV buildup, as an EEG study led by Dr. Cemre Baykan shows.

New insights into Vierordt’s law: A talk by Prof. John Wearden

Prof. John Wearden came to Munich to revisit Vierordt’s Law, weighing internal-clock and contextual accounts of why we overestimate short intervals and underestimate long ones, and argued that …

Influence of Temporal and Probabilistic Expectation on Subjective Time of Emotion Stimulus

Karaaslan and Shi report in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology that images arriving earlier than expected feel briefer, rare images feel longer, and negative images outlast neutral ones, …

Influence of Temporal and Probabilistic Expectation on Subjective Time of Emotion Stimulus

Karaaslan and Shi found that emotional images arriving earlier than expected felt shorter, rarer ones felt longer, and negative images seemed to last longer than neutral ones, with expectancy and …

Influence of Action on Sequential Dependence

An fMRI study in Cerebral Cortex shows that prior durations bias current time judgments only after active reproduction, not passive viewing, with hippocampal activity shielding encoded durations from …

TEDxTUM talk on “Hidden time cues shape our decisions”

Zhuanghua Shi took the TEDxTUM stage at Simple Complexity on Nov. 4th to show how hidden time cues quietly steer everyday choices and how we can learn to spot and master them.

Electrophysiological signatures of temporal context

Bisection experiments with EEG by Baykan and colleagues show that stimulus spacing and sample frequency pull duration judgments toward the context mean, altering the CNV rate and the LPCt amplitude …

Influences of temporal order in temporal reproduction

Baykan et al. had people tap out accelerating, decelerating or random four-interval sequences: the first interval pulled the mean reproduction, while volatility and the last interval drove the central …

Context in temporal decision making

Baykan and Shi comment on Ofir and Landau’s finding that the offset P3b tracks the temporal bisection point, noting that this point is itself set by context such as stimulus spacing and ensemble …

Beyond Scalar timing theory

Shi and colleagues propose a multifrequency oscillatory model that gives timing the computational accessibility most scalar-property models ignore and accounts for both retrospective and prospective …

Oscillation models of reward-related timing

Bin Yin and colleagues review striatal beat-frequency and coupled oscillation models of interval timing and propose a unified account linking corticostriatal and corticocerebellar circuits, dedicated …

The 150-Year-Old Mistake That Taught Us How the Brain Keeps Time

Karl von Vierordt thought he had found a law of time perception. Glasauer and Shi show his random interval order created the distortion, which nearly vanishes when durations drift as a random walk.

V5/MT+ modulates spatio-temporal integration differently across and within hemifields: causal evidence from TMS

Single-pulse TMS over left V5/MT+ tipped Ternus displays toward element motion across hemifields but toward group motion within a hemifield, giving causal evidence for its role in spatio-temporal …

The origin of Vierordt’s law: The experimental protocol matters

Simulating Vierordt (1868) with iterative Bayesian updating and testing random versus random-walk duration sequences, Glasauer and Shi show that the classic central tendency stems from an unnatural …