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Perceived duration of visual stimuli contracts due to crowding
Sofia Nagisa1, Ikuya Murakami1
1Department of Psychology, University of Tokyo.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|October 31, 2024
Summary
Difficult-to-discern visual stimuli appear shorter in duration. This suggests visual object recognition processes influence our perception of time, supporting distributed visual timing mechanisms.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Visual Perception
Background:
- Duration perception is not a single process; visual processing influences time perception.
- The impact of object recognition computations on duration perception remains unclear.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether visual object recognition processes affect duration perception.
- To dissociate low-level feature extraction from high-level object recognition using spatial crowding.
Main Methods:
- Created letter and vernier stimuli with matched low-level properties.
- Varied stimulus discriminability using spatial crowding.
- Collected duration perception data (2019-2023).
Main Results:
- Stimuli with lower discriminability due to crowding appeared shorter.
- This effect was not explained by low-level properties, cognitive bias, or perceived stimulus onsets/offsets.
Conclusions:
- Visual processing of features, shapes, and objects influences duration perception.
- Crowding affects these time-sensitive visual mechanisms.
- Findings support distributed timing mechanisms within the visual system.
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