ArticleScientific reports2016
Perceived visual time depends on motor preparation and direction of hand movements.
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- The role of consciously timed movements in shaping and improving auditory timing.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Time estimation during motor activity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Temporal judgments of actions following unilateral brain damage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Influence of Motor and Cognitive Tasks on Time Estimation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The implicit sense of agency is not a perceptual effect but is a judgment effect.Cognitive processing · 2022Review
- How movements shape the perception of time.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Slowing the body slows down time perception.eLife · 2021Article
- The Common Rhythm of Action and Perception.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2020Review
- The perception of time is dynamically interlocked with the facial muscle activity.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Neural correlates of time distortion in a preaction period.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Rhythmic motor behaviour influences perception of visual time.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Feel the Time. Time Perception as a Function of Interoceptive Processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Perceived time undergoes distortions when we prepare and perform movements, showing compression and/or expansion for visual, tactile and auditory stimuli. However, the actual motor system contribution to these time distortions is far from clear. In this study we investigated visual time perception during preparation of isometric contractions and real movements of the hand in two different directions (right/left). Comparable modulations of visual event-timing are found in the isometric and in the movement condition, excluding explanations based on movement-induced sensory masking or attenuation. Most importantly, and surprisingly, visual time depends on the movement direction, being expanded for hand movements pointing away from the body and compressed in the other direction. Furthermore, the effect of movement direction is not constant, but rather undergoes non-monotonic modulations in the brief moments preceding movement initiation. Our findings indicate that time distortions are strongly linked to the motor system, and they may be unavoidable consequences of the mechanisms subserving sensory-motor integration.
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