| Title | Modulations of temporal perception by consciously and unconsciously perceived stimuli |
| Authors | Zhou, Bin Qin, Jungang Mao, Lihua Han, Shihui Poeppel, Ernst |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Univ Munich, Inst Med Psychol, D-80336 Munich, Germany. Univ Munich, Human Sci Ctr, D-80336 Munich, Germany. Parmenides Ctr Study Thinking, D-82049 Pullach, Germany. Peking Univ, Dept Psychol, Yiheyuan Rd 5, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. |
| Keywords | ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE TIME DURATION MASKING SPACE ORDER |
| Issue Date | 2010 |
| Publisher | perception |
| Citation | PERCEPTION.2010,39,(7),900-908. |
| Abstract | Temporal processing is of fundamental importance to the understanding of orders and durations of events in daily life. While recent research found that the perception of event durations is modulated by the visibility of perceived stimuli, it is still not known whether consciously and unconsciously perceived stimuli modulate temporal perception of a following stimulus in a similar vein. We investigated this using a temporal-comparison task that requires duration judgments of a standard stimulus and a probe. A prime prior to the standard stimulus reduced the subjective duration of the standard stimulus when observers were aware of the prime, and this effect changed with the temporal distance between the prime and standard. In contrast, a prime increased the subjective duration of the following standard stimulus when observers were unaware of the presence of the prime. Our findings indicate that a temporally neighbouring transient stimulus produces essentially different effects on temporal perception of following events when it is consciously and unconsciously perceived, leading to compression and expansion of subjective time, respectively. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/323408 |
| ISSN | 0301-0066 |
| DOI | 10.1068/p6662 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) PubMed SSCI |
| Appears in Collections: | 心理与认知科学学院 |
