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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychophysics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Psychological time encompasses simultaneity, successiveness, temporal order, and duration judgments.
  • Previous research indicates modality effects in time perception, particularly at shorter intervals.
  • The perception of time flow as an illusion is a significant area of inquiry.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review key research on psychological time, with an emphasis on the authors' contributions.
  • To examine the influence of perceptual modality on time judgments across different durations.
  • To explore models explaining prospective and retrospective duration judgments.

Main Methods:

  • Selective review of existing literature on time perception.
  • Analysis of research focusing on visual versus auditory modality effects.
  • Examination of studies employing prospective and retrospective duration judgment paradigms.

Main Results:

  • Limited evidence for 'across-senses' modality effects at durations exceeding 3.0-5.0 seconds.
  • Temporal information, including recency, frequency, order, and duration, is encoded automatically into memory.
  • Distinct processes underlie prospective and retrospective duration judgments, moderated by specific variables.

Conclusions:

  • Modality effects in time perception are duration-dependent.
  • An attentional-gate model effectively explains prospective time judgments.
  • A contextual-change model is suitable for retrospective time judgments.