Glicksohn Joseph, Berkovich-Ohana Aviva, Mauro Federica, Ben-Soussan Tal D
Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2017 Oct 6;11:487. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00487. eCollection 2017.
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.
接触单调的感官环境会引发表明异常主观体验和时间感知改变的报告，这一观点是本报告的推动力。研究考察了接触此类环境对时间感知的影响，报告称环境变化越大，通过生成法获得的时间估计就越短。然而，大多数创造改变后的感官环境的条件并未促成沉浸式体验，即一种直接影响时间感知和主观体验的体验。在本研究中，我们邀请参与者进入一个全身感官改变的环境中进行20分钟的体验，在此期间他们被要求放松但不要睡着。体验包括在房间内闭眼进行白色照明（5分钟），随后用彩色照明房间10分钟，之后使用简短问卷收集主观体验的简短报告；接着再闭眼沉浸在白光中5分钟。然后就参与者的主观体验，包括他们在房间内对时间的体验进行访谈。在进入房间之前，参与者完成了一个时间生成（TP）任务。一组参与者在体验结束时在房间内重复该任务；另一组参与者在离开房间后重复该任务。我们将报告TP的变化，并呈现数据表明，当使用对数-对数图将生成时间绘制为目标持续时间的函数时，感官环境的主要影响在于心理物理函数的截距。我们还将进一步呈现数据表明，对于那些报告时间体验有显著变化的参与者，比如“时间感消失了”，他们的TP数据无法用对数-对数图进行线性化，因此表明对于这些个体，心理物理函数可能存在“断点”。
