Rattat Anne-Claire, Droit-Volet Sylvie
Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Q J Exp Psychol B. 2005 Apr;58(2):163-76. doi: 10.1080/02724990444000096.
Two experiments investigated the age-related changes in long-term retention of duration and their effects on time judgement. Children aged 3, 5, and 8 years old were given a temporal bisection task with or without a 15-min interfering task (Experiment 1), or a retention delay lasting for 0 min, 15 min, or 24 hr (Experiment 2) between the presentation of the standard durations and the comparison stimulus durations. An interfering task and the increase of the retention delay significantly decreased the time sensitivity in the 3- and the 5-year-olds, and to a greater extent in the younger children, but had no effect in the 8-year-olds. This decrease in time sensitivity with the interfering task or the retention delay might be due to an increase in the variability of the remembered duration.
两项实验研究了时长长期保持方面与年龄相关的变化及其对时间判断的影响。对3岁、5岁和8岁的儿童进行了一项时间二等分任务，该任务有或没有一个15分钟的干扰任务（实验1），或者在标准时长呈现和比较刺激时长之间设置持续0分钟、15分钟或24小时的保持延迟（实验2）。干扰任务和保持延迟的增加显著降低了3岁和5岁儿童的时间敏感性，且对年龄较小的儿童影响更大，但对8岁儿童没有影响。干扰任务或保持延迟导致的时间敏感性下降可能是由于记忆时长的变异性增加所致。
