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¹Department of Psychology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

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Our subjective experience of time often differs from physical time. This review explores how temporal contextual effects, multisensory integration, and recalibration contribute to subjective time perception, potentially explained by predictive coding models.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

The human sense of time is critical for perception and action.
Subjective time perception frequently deviates from objective, physical time.
Understanding these deviations is key to understanding cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

To review recent advancements in understanding subjective time.
To explore temporal contextual effects, multisensory temporal integration, and temporal recalibration.
To present a unified computational framework for subjective time.

Main Methods:

Literature review of recent research on temporal perception.
Analysis of computational models related to time perception.
Synthesis of findings within a theoretical framework.

Main Results:

Temporal contextual effects significantly influence subjective time.
Multisensory temporal integration shapes our perception of time.
Temporal recalibration demonstrates the adaptive nature of time perception.

Conclusions:

Subjective time perception can be understood through the lens of minimizing prediction errors.
Adaptive recalibration plays a crucial role in adjusting subjective time.
Predictive coding offers a unified framework for subjective time, aligning with Helmholtz's 'perception as inference'.