Gorea Andrei
Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité and CNRS, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris, France.
J Physiol Paris. 2011 Dec;105(4-6):153-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2011.09.008. Epub 2011 Sep 29.
The last decade underwent a revival of interest in the perception of time and duration. The present short essay does not compete with the many other recent reviews and books on this topic. Instead, it is meant to emphasize the notion that humans (and most likely other animals) have at their disposal more than one time measuring device and to propose that they use these devices jointly to appraise the passage of time. One possible consequence of this conjecture is that the same physical duration can be judged differently depending on the reference 'clock' used in any such judgment. As this view has not yet been tested empirically, several experimental manipulations susceptible to directly test it are suggested. Before, are summarized a number of its latent precursors, namely the relativity of perceived duration, current trends in modeling time perception and its neural and pharmacological substrate, the experimental literature supporting the existence of multiple 'clocks' and a selected number of experimental manipulations known to induce time perception illusions which together with many others are putatively accountable in terms of alternative clock readings.
过去十年，人们对时间和时长感知的兴趣再度兴起。这篇短文无意与近期关于该主题的众多其他综述和书籍相竞争。相反，它旨在强调这样一种观念，即人类（很可能其他动物也是如此）拥有不止一种时间测量手段，并提出他们会联合使用这些手段来评估时间的流逝。这一推测的一个可能结果是，相同的物理时长根据任何此类判断中所使用的参考“时钟”不同而可能会有不同的判断。由于这一观点尚未经过实证检验，本文提出了几种易于直接对其进行检验的实验操作方法。在此之前，先总结了它的一些潜在先驱观点，即感知时长的相对性、时间感知建模的当前趋势及其神经和药理学基础、支持多种“时钟”存在的实验文献，以及一些已知会诱发时间感知错觉的特定实验操作方法，这些与许多其他因素一起，据推测可以用不同的时钟读数来解释。
