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As time passes by: Observed motion-speed and psychological time during video playback
Thomas Jonathan Nyman1, Eric Per Anders Karlsson1, Jan Antfolk1
1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Abstract:
Research shows that psychological time (i.e., the subjective experience and assessment of the passage of time) is malleable and that the central nervous system re-calibrates temporal information in accordance with situational factors so that psychological time flows slower or faster. Observed motion-speed (e.g., the visual perception of a rolling ball) is an important situational factor which influences the production of time estimates. The present study examines previous findings showing that observed slow and fast motion-speed during video playback respectively results in over- and underproductions of intervals of time. Here, we investigated through three separate experiments: a) the main effect of observed motion-speed during video playback on a time production task and b) the interactive effect of the frame rate (frames per second; fps) and motion-speed during video playback on a time production task. No main effect of video playback-speed or interactive effect between video playback-speed and frame rate was found on time production.
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