ArticleScientific reports2022
The psychophysiological mechanisms of real-world time experience.
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- Self-report measures of subjective time: An overview of existing measures and their semantic similarities.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Parkinson's disease and awareness of the passage of time: Perceived health, emotion, and self-transcendence.PloS one · 2026Article
- Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Interoceptive signals and emotional states shape temporal perception through heart rate modulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Predicting an EEG-Based hypnotic time estimation with non-linear kernels of support vector machine algorithm.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Exploring the correlation and causation between alpha oscillations and one-second time perception through EEG and tACS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Distortions to Passage of Time Judgements (POTJ) due to virtual threat are predicted by autonomic activation.PloS one · 2024Article
- The connection between stress, density, and speed in crowds.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Quantifying time perception during virtual reality gameplay using a multimodal biosensor-instrumented headset: a feasibility study.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Our sense of time is fallible, often resulting in the sensation of time flying by quickly or dragging slowly. It has been suggested that changes in sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity may influence the perceived passage of time, however this proposition has never been tested during real-world temporal experience. The current study directly tested the relationship between the passage of time and SNS-PNS activity in the real-world. Sixty-seven participants completed a normal day's activities whilst wearing sensors to capture electrocardiography (ECG), electrodermal activity (EDA) and movement. They also provided hourly rating of the subjective speed at which time was passing. Results revealed that greater SNS activity (e.g., increased heart rate, frequency of phasic skin conductance response) was associated with time passing more quickly. PNS activity was not related to time experience. Whilst the findings support previous suggestions that changes in physiological arousal are associated with distortions to the passage of time, the effects are small and other factors are likely to contribute to real-world temporal experience.
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