Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: the role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time.
Although it is well established that action contexts can expand the perceived durations of action-related events, whether action contexts also impact the subjective duration of events unrelated to the action remains an open issue. Here we examined how the automatic implicit reactions induced by viewing task-irrelevant, real moving objects influence tactile duration judgments. Participants were asked to make temporal bisection judgments of a tactile event while seeing a potentially catchable swinging ball. Approaching movement induced a tactile-duration overestimation relative to lateral movement and to a static baseline, and receding movement produced an expansion similar in duration to that from approaching movement. Interestingly, the effect of approaching movement on the subjective tactile duration was greatly reduced when participants held lightweight objects in their hands, relative to a hands-free condition, whereas no difference was obtained in the tactile-duration estimates between static hands-free and static hands-occupied conditions. The results indicate that duration perception is determined by internal bodily states as well as by sensory evidence.
School of Humanities, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Lina
L
Jia
Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. strongway@psy.lmu.de.|Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80802, Munich, Germany. strongway@psy.lmu.de.
Zhuanghua
Z
Shi
Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Xuelian
X
Zang
Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.|School of Psychological Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.
Hermann J
HJ
Müller
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D011594:Psychometrics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
Bodily states; Crossmodal interaction; Duration estimation; Embodied perception; Embodiment; Temporal processing