ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016
Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotional states affect the degree of duration distortion more than distortion direction: a meta-analytic research.Psychological research · 2025Pooled it
- Time perception and autistic spectrum condition: A systematic review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2019Pooled it
- Physiological Arousal and Its Effects on Time Perception: A Systematic Review.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive sciencePooled it
- The effects of microdose LSD on time perception: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Psychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- The Relationship Between Problematic Smartphone Use and Time Distortion: The Serial Mediating Effects of Loneliness and Fear of Missing Out.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Self-report measures of subjective time: An overview of existing measures and their semantic similarities.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Salient features of task-irrelevant continuous speech distort subjective time.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026Article
- Emotional pictures and time: The effects of arousal and valence on the perception of duration and the subjective passage of time.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Midbrain Dopamine Warps Subjective Time via Threshold Setting But Not Clock Speed.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Emotional Blunting and Time Estimation in Depression.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Effects of physical effort on temporal processing.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025Article
- Stimuli are perceived as lasting longer when there is something bright on the screen.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology.Journal of personality · 2025Article
- The impact of emotion on temporal prediction ability in different timing contexts.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The effect of individual visual sensitivity on time perception.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?Cognition & emotion · 2025Article
- Interoceptive signals and emotional states shape temporal perception through heart rate modulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Minding the moving self: the centrality of body movement in the neurodynamics of the self and psychotherapeutic implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- When time slows down: temporal distortion and addictive social media use.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Like other senses, our perception of time is not veridical, but rather, is modulated by changes in environmental context. Anecdotal experiences suggest that emotions can be powerful modulators of time perception; nevertheless, the functional and neural mechanisms underlying emotion-induced temporal distortions remain unclear. Widely accepted pacemaker-accumulator models of time perception suggest that changes in arousal and attention have unique influences on temporal judgments and contribute to emotional distortions of time perception. However, such models conflict with current views of arousal and attention suggesting that current models of time perception do not adequately explain the variability in emotion-induced temporal distortions. Instead, findings provide support for a new perspective of emotion-induced temporal distortions that emphasizes both the unique and interactive influences of arousal and attention on time perception over time. Using this framework, we discuss plausible functional and neural mechanisms of emotion-induced temporal distortions and how these temporal distortions may have important implications for our understanding of how emotions modulate our perceptual experiences in service of adaptive responding to biologically relevant stimuli.
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