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Yuhui Cheng1, Jiazhen Wu2, Yao Bian2

  • 1School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Adolescent Education and Intelligence Support Lab of Nanjing Normal University, Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Universities in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210097, China.

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Summary
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Coordinated biological motion, like synchronized walking, is perceived as shorter in duration. This effect highlights how social dynamics influence our sense of time.

Keywords:
Biological motionSocial groupingSpatial alignmentTemporal synchronyTime perception

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Perception

Background:

  • Collective motion, characterized by synchronized movements, serves as a key social signal linked to group action and cohesion.
  • The human visual system effectively processes coordinated biological motion, integrating multiple agents into a unified entity.
  • The temporal processing of coordinated biological motion remains less understood compared to its spatial aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the temporal dynamics of coordinated biological motion are perceived.
  • To determine if temporal synchrony and spatial alignment in biological motion affect perceived duration.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a temporal comparison task, judging the duration of sequentially presented point-light walker displays.
  • Stimuli varied in temporal synchrony (step phase) and spatial alignment (walking direction) to create coordinated and uncoordinated conditions.
  • Control conditions included scrambled biological motion, static displays, non-biological motion, and object motion.

    • Main Results:

    • Coordinated biological motion sequences were perceived as significantly shorter in duration than uncoordinated ones.
    • This duration perception effect persisted with scrambled biological motion but vanished in static displays.
    • The effect was specific to biological motion, absent in non-biological and object motion, and stronger for temporal synchrony than spatial alignment.

    Conclusions:

    • Perception of time is influenced by higher-order social dynamics, specifically coordinated biological motion.
    • A specialized time perception mechanism appears tuned to the temporal and spatial characteristics of group movement.
    • These findings underscore the integration of social cues into subjective temporal experience.