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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visual motion direction affects perceived duration, with looming stimuli appearing longer than receding ones.
  • This temporal distortion has been attributed to arousal or attention modulation.
  • Dissociating these accounts requires examining how emotional stimuli influence this effect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how emotional content modulates the influence of motion direction on perceived duration.
  • To differentiate between arousal- and attention-based explanations for the looming/receding temporal asymmetry.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a temporal bisection task using static and dynamic emotional facial stimuli (angry, happy, neutral).
  • Experiment 1 used static faces; Experiment 2 used dynamic (looming/receding) faces.
  • Participant-rated arousal levels were correlated with duration perception measures.

Main Results:

  • Facial emotion did not affect duration perception in static displays (Experiment 1).
  • Dynamic looming stimuli were perceived as longer than receding stimuli (Experiment 2).
  • The looming/receding asymmetry decreased as stimulus arousal ratings increased, indicating an interaction.

Conclusions:

  • The looming/receding temporal asymmetry is reduced by highly arousing stimuli.
  • Enhanced attentional engagement due to arousing facial expressions may diminish the motion direction effect on time perception.
  • Findings support an attention-based modulation of visual motion's influence on duration perception.