What is it about?
The literature on time perception is discussed. This is done with reference both to the "cognitive-timer" model for time estimation and to the subjective experience of apparent duration. Three assumptions underlying the model are scrutinized. I stress the strong interplay among attention, arousal, and time perception, which is at the base of the cognitive-timer model. It is suggested that a multiplicative function of two key components (the number of subjective time units and their size) should predict apparent duration. Implications for other cognitive domains are drawn, and in particular an analogy is suggested between apparent duration and apparent movement.
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Why is it important?
For some further work looking at the implications of this model, see: Glicksohn, J. (2003). Disentangling the components of a multiplicative function for apparent duration. In B. Berglund & E. Borg (Eds.), Fechner Day 2003: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 109-114). Stockholm: International Society for Psychophysics.
Perspectives
A major exposition of my view on the internal clock, my understanding of the claims made in the literature regarding the nature of the pulses generated by the pacemaker component and their relation to the subjective units posited by various theorists. My approach is decidedly non-mechanistic, and I draw on the literature on Absorption and ASCs. In addition, I emphasize the parallels between time perception and space perception.
Professor Joseph Glicksohn
Bar-Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: Temporal Cognition and the Phenomenology of Time: A Multiplicative Function for Apparent Duration, Consciousness and Cognition, March 2001, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.2000.0468.
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