On the distinction between perceived duration and event timing: towards a unified model of time perception

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Rhodes, D. ORCID: 0000-0001-5859-4567, 2018. On the distinction between perceived duration and event timing: towards a unified model of time perception. Timing & Time Perception, 6 (1), pp. 90-123. ISSN 2213-445X

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-20181132

Abstract

Time is a fundamental dimension of human perception, cognition and action, as the perception and cognition of temporal information is essential for everyday activities and survival. Innumerable studies have investigated the perception of time over the last 100 years, but the neural and computational bases for the processing of time remains unknown. Extant models of time perception are discussed before the proposition of a unified model of time perception that relates perceived event timing with perceived duration. The distinction between perceived event timing and perceived duration provides the current for navigating contemporary approaches to time perception. Recent work has advocated a Bayesian approach to time perception. This framework has been applied to both duration and perceived timing, where prior expectations about when a stimulus might occur in the future (prior distribution) are combined with current sensory evidence (likelihood function) in order to generate the perception of temporal properties (posterior distribution). In general, these models predict that the brain uses temporal expectations to bias perception in a way that stimuli are ‘regularized’ i.e. stimuli look more like what has been seen before. As such, the synthesis of perceived timing and duration models is of theoretical importance for the field of timing and time perception.

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Journal article

Publication Title:

Timing & Time Perception

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Rhodes, D.

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Brill

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15 May 2018

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