Reproduction of duration: How should I count the ways?

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Abstract

We take a close look at the task of prospective time reproduction, wherein an individual is aware of the fact that she will subsequently be asked to reproduce a demarked duration. Our participants were either explicitly instructed not to count, or were allowed to count. When participants are allowed to count, their reproductions (R) tend to be a linear function of target duration (D). When instructed not to count, they exhibited a shorter log(R) mean value than those who were allowed to count. Participants not counting are thus less veridical in time estimation. Given that for them β<1, this suggests that subjective time for them is not a linear function of physical time. We further contrast four major indices relating reproduced time to target duration: R/D, D/R, |R-D|, and |R-D|/D. While the D/R ratio score detected the difference between groups; this was not the case for the other measures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception - COST TD0904 International Workshop, Revised Selected Papers
Pages79-91
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventCOST TD0904 International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception - Athens, Greece
Duration: 7 Oct 20108 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6789 LNAI

Conference

ConferenceCOST TD0904 International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period7/10/108/10/10

Keywords

  • Absolute discrepancy
  • Absolute error
  • Psychophysics
  • Ratio score
  • Time estimation
  • Time reproduction

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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