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Sayako Ueda1,2,3, Shingo Shimoda2,3
1Department of Psychology, Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
Frontiers in Psychology
|August 28, 2023
Summary
Enhanced sensory feedback, particularly multiple auditory cues, compresses subjective time during continuous voluntary actions. This improved sense of agency (SoA) suggests potential for manipulating time perception in daily life.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience of Perception
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Subjective time perception is malleable and influenced by voluntary actions.
- Previous research indicates continuous actions compress time perception compared to single actions.
- Sense of agency (SoA) is proposed to mediate this time compression effect.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate if enhancing SoA through sensory feedback further compresses subjective time.
- To test the hypothesis that richer auditory feedback amplifies the time compression effect.
Main Methods:
- A temporal reproduction task was employed.
- Participants performed single or continuous actions with varying auditory feedback (single or multiple cues).
Main Results:
- Continuous actions consistently compressed subjective time perception of auditory stimuli.
- Enriched auditory feedback (multiple cues) during continuous action led to greater time compression.
- Enhanced auditory feedback correlated with a stronger SoA.
Conclusions:
- Richer sensory feedback enhances SoA and subjective time compression during voluntary actions.
- Findings suggest potential for developing interventions to alter time perception in everyday experiences.
