ArticleScientific reports2018
The effect of attention and working memory on the estimation of elapsed time.
Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 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
- Embodying Time in the Brain: A Multi-Dimensional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis of 95 Duration Processing Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Impaired micro-online motor learning processes in individuals with severe anxiety.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spontaneous Oscillatory Activity in Episodic Timing: An EEG Replication Study and Its Limitations.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Time, space, memory and brain-body rhythms.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effects of physical effort on temporal processing.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025Article
- Medium Spiny Neurons Mediate Timing Perception in Coordination with Prefrontal Neurons in Primates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Bridging the gap between aberrant time processing and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: a potential core feature?Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Perceived temporal distortions may explain the effect of precarity on intertemporal choices.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The potential mechanisms underlying the effect of acute alcohol use on duration perception.Addiction biology · 2024Article
- Towards a neurodevelopmental cognitive perspective of temporal processing.Communications biology · 2024Review
- Exploring the correlation and causation between alpha oscillations and one-second time perception through EEG and tACS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Quantifying accuracy and precision from continuous response data in studies of spatial perception and crossmodal recalibration.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Cognitive effects on experienced duration and speed of time, prospectively, retrospectively, in and out of lockdown.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Overcoming the translational crisis of contemporary psychiatry - converging phenomenological and spatiotemporal psychopathology.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- Spontaneous α Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic "When".The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- The effect of visually filled reproductions on the reproduced durations of auditory intervals.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- The temporal visual oddball effect is not caused by repetition suppression.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- The role of depressive symptoms in the interplay between aging and temporal processing.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Influence of Recent Trial History on Interval Timing.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Psychological models of time perception involve attention and memory: while attention typically regulates the flow of events, memory maintains timed events or intervals. The precise, and possibly distinct, roles of attention and memory in time perception remain debated. In this behavioral study, we tested 48 participants in a prospective duration estimation task while they fully attended to time or performed a working memory (WM) task. We report that paying attention to time lengthened perceived duration in the range of seconds to minutes, whereas diverting attention away from time shortened perceived duration. The overestimation due to attending to time did not scale with durations. To the contrary, increasing WM load systematically decreased subjective duration and this effect scaled with durations. Herein, we discuss the dissociation between attention and WM in timing and scalar variability from the perspective of Bayesian models of time estimations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.