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Slowing the body slows down time perception.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Embodying Time in the Brain: A Multi-Dimensional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis of 95 Duration Processing Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Perception of audio-visual synchrony is modulated by walking speed and step-cycle phase.Perception · 2026Article
- From finger to whole-body movements: How movement type affects our sense of time.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Effects of physical effort on temporal processing.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025Article
- How Action Shapes Temporal Judgments: A Study in Brain Damaged Patients Through Immersive Virtual Reality.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A neuroadaptive interface shows intentional control alters the experience of time.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Interoceptive and Bodily Processing in Prospective and Retrospective Timing.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
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- Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa).Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Population coding of strategic variables during foraging in freely moving macaques.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Hand movements influence the perception of time in a prediction motion task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- The role of consciously timed movements in shaping and improving auditory timing.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Temporal judgments of actions following unilateral brain damage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Lost in pandemic time: a phenomenological analysis of temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 crisis.Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences · 2022Article
- How movements shape the perception of time.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Slowing the body slows down time perception.eLife · 2021Article
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Abstract
Interval timing is a fundamental component of action and is susceptible to motor-related temporal distortions. Previous studies have shown that concurrent movement biases temporal estimates, but have primarily considered self-modulated movement only. However, real-world encounters often include situations in which movement is restricted or perturbed by environmental factors. In the following experiments, we introduced viscous movement environments to externally modulate movement and investigated the resulting effects on temporal perception. In two separate tasks, participants timed auditory intervals while moving a robotic arm that randomly applied four levels of viscosity. Results demonstrated that higher viscosity led to shorter perceived durations. Using a drift-diffusion model and a Bayesian observer model, we confirmed these biasing effects arose from perceptual mechanisms, instead of biases in decision making. These findings suggest that environmental perturbations are an important factor in movement-related temporal distortions, and enhance the current understanding of the interactions of motor activity and cognitive processes.
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