Otto Selz Institute for Applied Psychology, Mannheim Centre for Work and Health, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2012 Oct;38(5):1118-24. doi: 10.1037/a0027073. Epub 2012 Jan 30.
Systematic errors in time reproduction tasks have been interpreted as a misperception of time and therefore seem to contradict basic assumptions of pacemaker-accumulator models. Here we propose an alternative explanation of this phenomenon based on methodological constraints regarding the direction of time, which cannot be manipulated in experimental settings. In two experiments, we demonstrate the influence of the direction of a dimensional change for pitch and brightness estimates. The results support the assumption that errors in time reproduction tasks do not reflect a systematic temporal misperception, but rather a methodological artifact. Implications for contemporary models of time perception are discussed.
在时间重现任务中出现的系统误差曾被解释为对时间的错误感知，因此似乎与起搏器-累加器模型的基本假设相矛盾。在这里，我们基于时间方向的方法学限制提出了对这一现象的另一种解释，因为在实验环境中无法对时间方向进行操作。在两个实验中，我们展示了音高和亮度估计的维度变化方向对其的影响。结果支持了这样的假设，即时间重现任务中的误差并不反映系统的时间感知错误，而是一种方法学上的人为产物。讨论了这些结果对当代时间感知模型的意义。
