ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation.
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- State-Dependent Distortions of Short-Range Internal Timing: A Narrative Review Across Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Parkinson's Disease, and Epilepsy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Sense of time is slower following exhaustive cycling exercise.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Characteristics of psychological time in patients with depression and potential intervention strategies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Influence of Motor and Cognitive Tasks on Time Estimation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Slower perception of time in depressed and suicidal patients.European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Temporal Preparation, Impulsivity and Short-Term Memory in Depression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Time Perception Mechanisms at Central Nervous System.Neurology international · 2016Review
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Abstract
Depressed patients frequently report a subjective slowing of the passage of time. However, experimental demonstrations of altered time perception in depressed patients are not conclusive. We added a timed action task (time-to-contact estimation, TTC) and compared this indirect time perception task to the more direct classical methods of verbal time estimation, time production, and time reproduction. In the TTC estimation task, the deviations of the estimates from the veridical values (relative errors) revealed no differences between depressed patients (N= 22) and healthy controls (N= 22). Neither did the relative errors of the TTC estimates differ between groups. There was a weak trend toward higher variability of the estimates in depressed patients but only at the shortest TTC and at the fastest velocities. Time experience (subjective flow of time) as well as time perception in terms of interval timing (verbal estimation, time production, time reproduction) performed on the same subjects likewise failed to produce effects of depression. We conclude that the notion that depression has a sizeable effect on time perception cannot be maintained.
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