Multiple streams of time consciousness: a new model of retrospective timing.
This note suggests a new hypothesis for retrospective timing, that, when one experiences a period of time in which plural contexts progress simultaneously, a stream of time consciousness is formed for each context and a temporal judgment to the period is made for each of the streams. In the experiment, 17 subjects observed an event in which plural contexts progressed simultaneously and estimated the time a certain thing occurred during the event. Subjects' estimated times varied with the number of changes in the context which the subjects were required to judge. The hypothesis was supported.
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Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan. satoru@hus.osakau.ac.jp
D000328:Adult; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013998:Time Perception