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  • 1Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg i.Br., Germany. jw@igpp.de

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Summary

Human time perception is structured by distinct temporal horizons, from milliseconds to seconds. Beyond these, time is reconstructed, not directly experienced, highlighting the limits of our subjective time awareness.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Human experience of time is not continuous but structured by distinct temporal boundaries or
  • horizons.
  • These horizons are influenced by neural processes and perceptual thresholds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To delineate the multi-regional structure of human temporal duration experience.
  • To identify the perceptual and neural bases of these temporal horizons.
  • To distinguish between experienced and cognitively reconstructed time.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of perceptual thresholds for simultaneity and temporal order.
  • Comparative data on autokinetic times across species.
  • Examination of duration reproduction experiments to determine the reproducibility horizon.

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Conclusions:

  • Subjective time experience is organized by distinct phenomenal horizons.
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