Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 310036, China.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2012 Feb;19(1):46-51. doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0188-4.
Recent research has indicated that reentrant feedback from the contents of working memory can enhance neural representations and the perceptual strengths of matching stimuli in the visual field. However, whether the contents of working memory can also distort conscious experiences of perception remains unclear. Our present results show that the durations of perceptual stimuli matching the nontemporal representations in working memory tend to be perceived as longer than those of mismatching stimuli. This is the first demonstration that working memory can lead to distortions of time perception. Our findings are consistent with the ideas that the perceived duration of a stimulus depends on the magnitude of the neural responses to that stimulus in visual cortex and that there is a common system for representing both temporal and nontemporal magnitudes. We conclude that top-down modulation from the nontemporal contents of working memory distorts the perceptual experience of temporal duration.
最近的研究表明,来自工作记忆内容的折返反馈可以增强神经表示,并增强视觉场中匹配刺激的感知强度。然而,工作记忆的内容是否也会扭曲感知的意识体验尚不清楚。我们目前的结果表明,与工作记忆中非时间表示匹配的感知刺激的持续时间往往比不匹配的刺激的持续时间长。这是第一个证明工作记忆会导致时间感知扭曲的实验。我们的研究结果与以下观点一致,即刺激的感知持续时间取决于视觉皮层中对该刺激的神经反应的大小,并且存在一个用于表示时间和非时间量的共同系统。我们得出结论,来自工作记忆中非时间内容的自上而下的调制会扭曲时间持续的感知体验。