Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LAPSCO, 34 avenue Carnot, 63037, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Psychol Res. 2022 Mar;86(2):522-530. doi: 10.1007/s00426-021-01486-6. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
The aim of this study was to examine the factors that explain variations in the conscious experience of time. The level of difficulty of the task, emotional valence and duration of stimuli were tested in three different experiments with two ranges of durations, one of seconds and the other one of minutes. The results showed that the passage of time was judged faster with durations in the seconds than in the minutes range. However, for all duration values, each change in the features of the task produced changes in the judgment of the passage of time. The subjective feeling of an acceleration of the passage of time, therefore, increased linearly with the increase in the level of difficulty of the task and with the positive valence of the emotional stimuli. It also varied linearly with the length of real time, increasing in the same proportion as the decrease in stimulus duration, regardless of the associated range (seconds or minutes). Our theory is that the judgment of the passage of time might be a generic way of describing the most salient internal or external contextual changes experienced.
本研究旨在探讨解释意识时间体验变化的因素。在三个不同的实验中，我们测试了任务难度水平、情绪效价和刺激持续时间，实验持续时间范围分别为秒和分钟。结果表明，与分钟范围相比，秒范围内的时间流逝被判断得更快。然而，对于所有持续时间值，任务特征的每次变化都会导致对时间流逝的判断发生变化。因此，主观上感觉到时间流逝的加速与任务难度水平的增加以及情绪刺激的正效价呈线性关系。它还与实时时间的长度呈线性变化，与刺激持续时间的缩短成比例增加，而与关联范围（秒或分钟）无关。我们的理论是，时间流逝的判断可能是一种通用的方式，可以描述所经历的最显著的内部或外部上下文变化。
