Time perception
Time perception

How does the brain construct the experience of time and why does it sometimes get it wrong? Our research investigates sequential dependencies, context effects, timing models, and the neural signatures of temporal processing across seconds to minutes.

25 papers • 30 posts

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Research
Perceiving Tempo in Incongruent Audiovisual Presentations of Human Motion: Evidence for a Visual Driving Effect
When point-light dancers and rhythmic beats disagree on tempo, participants follow the dancers: a bisection task showed visual tempo driving overall judgements up for fast and down for slow rhythms.
May 17, 2021
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Variation in the “coefficient of variation”: Rethinking the violation of the scalar property in time-duration judgments
Duration reproductions and their coefficient of variation both shift with temporal context, and a two-stage Bayesian model captures these shifts without abandoning a constant Weber fraction, so CV …
May 6, 2021
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Logarithmic encoding of ensemble time intervals
Asked to average a run of auditory or visual intervals, observers land near the geometric rather than the arithmetic mean, pointing to a logarithmic subjective timeline. Published in Scientific …
May 6, 2021
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Temporal bisection is influenced by ensemble statistics of the stimulus set
Three bisection experiments show that the mean and variance of the whole duration set, not the short and long standards, anchor temporal comparisons, as the new ensemble-distribution account predicts.
May 6, 2021
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Sequential dependence and Vierordt’s law
With Stefan Glasauer we reread Vierordt (1868) and found that his randomized interval order, not timing itself, produces the classic central tendency; a random-walk sequence yields far less bias.
Oct 26, 2018
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What you see depends on what you hear: temporal averaging and crossmodal integration
A task-irrelevant auditory sequence, regular or irregular, shifts whether observers see group or element Ternus motion, and it does so through the geometric mean of its intervals, consistent with …
Oct 26, 2018