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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science2014

Time perception: the bad news and the good.

William J Matthews, Warren H Meck

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The role of low-frequency rTMS in the superior parietal cortex during time estimation.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019
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  10. Time Dilation in Motivational Congruence Theory's Paradigm.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2025
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  15. Coordinate-Based Meta-Analyses of the Time Perception Network.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  16. Creating a Home for Timing Researchers: Then, Now, and the Future.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

William J MatthewsDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Warren H MeckDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Time perception is fundamental and heavily researched, but the field faces a number of obstacles to theoretical progress. In this advanced review, we focus on three pieces of 'bad news' for time perception research: temporal perception is highly labile across changes in experimental context and task; there are pronounced individual differences not just in overall performance but in the use of different timing strategies and the effect of key variables; and laboratory studies typically bear little relation to timing in the 'real world'. We describe recent examples of these issues and in each case offer some 'good news' by showing how new research is addressing these challenges to provide rich insights into the neural and information-processing bases of timing and time perception. WIREs Cogn Sci 2014, 5:429-446. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1298 This article is categorized under: Psychology > Perception and Psychophysics Neuroscience > Cognition.

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PMCPMC4142010

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