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Şerife Leman Runyun^1,2, Virginie van Wassenhove³, Fuat Balci^4,5

¹Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Summary

Social isolation during COVID-19 lockdowns impaired temporal metacognition, reducing the ability to monitor timing errors. This cognitive effect was linked to increased social isolation and altered biological rhythms.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Public Health

Background:

Social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted human well-being.
Previous research explored altered time perception, but the effects on temporal metacognition remained uninvestigated.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of long-term social isolation during COVID-19 lockdowns on temporal error monitoring.
To assess if social isolation affects the ability to self-monitor timing performance accuracy.

Main Methods:

Recruited 1232 participants during lockdown across 12 countries, with a subset retested post-pandemic.
Compared lockdown participants with a separate post-pandemic group, analyzing time production accuracy and error monitoring.
Controlled for government stringency indices and self-reported social isolation levels.

Main Results:

Reduced temporal error monitoring performance was observed during lockdown compared to post-lockdown, in both within-group and between-group analyses.
Higher levels of reported social isolation correlated with poorer temporal error monitoring.
Participants produced longer durations during lockdown than post-lockdown, even after controlling for stringency.

Conclusions:

Long-term social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected temporal metacognition and error monitoring.
Altered biological and behavioral rhythms may underlie these observed cognitive changes.
Findings highlight crucial cognitive consequences of prolonged social isolation.