ArticleScientific reports2019
Core body temperature speeds up temporal processing and choice behavior under deadlines.
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- Altered gravity and time perception: a brief review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The Effects of Physical and Mental Fatigue on Time Perception.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Temporal perception is distorted by submaximal and maximal isometric contractions of the knee extensors in young healthy males and females.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Influence of Motor and Cognitive Tasks on Time Estimation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Frequency matters: how changes in hippocampal theta frequency can influence temporal coding, anxiety-reduction, and memory.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Interoceptive accuracy correlates with precision of time perception in the millisecond range.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Attention Does Not Affect the Speed of Subjective Time, but Whether Temporal Information Guides Performance: A Large-Scale Study of Intrinsically Motivated Timers in a Real-Time Strategy Game.Cognitive science · 2021Article
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- Time perception and timed decision task performance during passive heat stress.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2020Article
- Investigating the origin and consequences of endogenous default options in repeated economic choices.PloS one · 2020Article
- Systematic Parameter Reviews in Cognitive Modeling: Towards a Robust and Cumulative Characterization of Psychological Processes in the Diffusion Decision Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Evidence suggests that human timing ability is compromised by heat. In particular, some studies suggest that increasing body temperature speeds up an internal clock, resulting in faster time perception. However, the consequences of this speed-up for other cognitive processes remain unknown. In the current study, we rigorously tested the speed-up hypothesis by inducing passive hyperthermia through immersion of participants in warm water. In addition, we tested how a change in time perception affects performance in decision making under deadline stress. We found that participants underestimate a prelearned temporal interval when body temperature increases, and that their performance in a two-alternative forced-choice task displays signatures of increased time pressure. These results show not only that timing plays an important role in decision-making, but also that this relationship is mediated by temperature. The consequences for decision-making in job environments that are demanding due to changes in body temperature may be considerable.
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