ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2015
Faster is briefer: The symbolic meaning of speed influences time perception.
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- Factors underlying flicker-induced time dilation: Temporal frequency, semantic content, and subjective saliency of visual stimuli.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Retrospective duration judgments of naturalistic events depend on memories of event boundaries.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Slow motion bias: Exploring the relation between time overestimation and increased perceived intentionality.Perception · 2023Article
- Do the young and the old perceive emotional intervals differently when shown on a younger or older face?Cognitive processing · 2021Article
- Probing the effect of the expected-speed violation illusion.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- Effect of the Symbolic Meaning of Speed on the Perceived Duration of Children and Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The present study investigates how the symbolic meaning of the stimuli presented for marking time intervals affects perceived duration. Participants were engaged in a time bisection task in which they were first trained with two standard durations, 400 ms and 1600 ms, and then asked to judge if the following temporal intervals were closer to the short or to the long standard. Stimuli were images of vehicles representing speed, with a motorbike representing fastness and a bicycle representing slowness. Results showed that presenting images with different speed meanings affects time perception: an image representing a fast object, the motorbike, leads to shorter perceived time than presenting an image representing a slower object, the bicycle. This finding is attributed to an impact on the memory mechanism involved in the processing of temporal information.
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