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Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment
The notion that exposure to a monotonous sensory environment could elicit reports indicating aberrant subjective experience and altered time perception is the impetus for the present report. Research has looked at the influence of exposure to such environments on time perception, reporting that the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00487 |
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author | Glicksohn, Joseph Berkovich-Ohana, Aviva Mauro, Federica Ben-Soussan, Tal D. |
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description | The notion that exposure to a monotonous sensory environment could elicit reports indicating aberrant subjective experience and altered time perception is the impetus for the present report. Research has looked at the influence of exposure to such environments on time perception, reporting that the greater the environmental variation, the shorter is the time estimation obtained by the method of production. Most conditions for creating an altered sensory environment, however, have not facilitated an immersive experience, one that directly impacts both time perception and subjective experience. In this study, we invited our participants to enter a whole-body altered sensory environment for a 20-min session, wherein they were asked to relax without falling asleep. The session included white-colored illumination of the chamber with eyes closed (5 min), followed by 10 min of illuminating the room with color, after which a short report of subjective experience was collected using a brief questionnaire; this was followed by an additional 5 min of immersion in white light with closed eyes. The participants were then interviewed regarding their subjective experience, including their experience of time within the chamber. Prior to entering the chamber, the participants completed a time-production (TP) task. One group of participants then repeated the task within the chamber, at the end of the session; a second group of participants repeated the task after exiting the chamber. We shall report on changes in TP, and present data indicating that when produced time is plotted as a function of target duration, using a log–log plot, the major influence of sensory environment is on the intercept of the psychophysical function. We shall further present data indicating that for those participants reporting a marked change in time experience, such as “the sensation of time disappeared,” their TP data could not be linearized using a log–log plot, hence indicating that for these individuals there might be a “break” in the psychophysical function. |
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spelling | pubmed-56350432017-10-20 Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment Glicksohn, Joseph Berkovich-Ohana, Aviva Mauro, Federica Ben-Soussan, Tal D. Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience The notion that exposure to a monotonous sensory environment could elicit reports indicating aberrant subjective experience and altered time perception is the impetus for the present report. Research has looked at the influence of exposure to such environments on time perception, reporting that the greater the environmental variation, the shorter is the time estimation obtained by the method of production. Most conditions for creating an altered sensory environment, however, have not facilitated an immersive experience, one that directly impacts both time perception and subjective experience. In this study, we invited our participants to enter a whole-body altered sensory environment for a 20-min session, wherein they were asked to relax without falling asleep. The session included white-colored illumination of the chamber with eyes closed (5 min), followed by 10 min of illuminating the room with color, after which a short report of subjective experience was collected using a brief questionnaire; this was followed by an additional 5 min of immersion in white light with closed eyes. The participants were then interviewed regarding their subjective experience, including their experience of time within the chamber. Prior to entering the chamber, the participants completed a time-production (TP) task. One group of participants then repeated the task within the chamber, at the end of the session; a second group of participants repeated the task after exiting the chamber. We shall report on changes in TP, and present data indicating that when produced time is plotted as a function of target duration, using a log–log plot, the major influence of sensory environment is on the intercept of the psychophysical function. We shall further present data indicating that for those participants reporting a marked change in time experience, such as “the sensation of time disappeared,” their TP data could not be linearized using a log–log plot, hence indicating that for these individuals there might be a “break” in the psychophysical function. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5635043/ /pubmed/29056902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00487 Text en Copyright © 2017 Glicksohn, Berkovich-Ohana, Mauro and Ben-Soussan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Glicksohn, Joseph Berkovich-Ohana, Aviva Mauro, Federica Ben-Soussan, Tal D. Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title | Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title_full | Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title_fullStr | Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title_short | Time Perception and the Experience of Time When Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment |
title_sort | time perception and the experience of time when immersed in an altered sensory environment |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00487 |
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