@article{ref1,
title="Do changes in the pace of events affect one-off judgments of duration?",
journal="PLoS one",
year="2013",
author="Darlow, Hannah M. and Dylman, Alexandra S. and Gheorghiu, Ana I. and Matthews, William J.",
volume="8",
number="3",
pages="e59847-e59847",
abstract="Five experiments examined whether changes in the pace of external events influence people's judgments of duration. In Experiments 1a-1c, participants heard pieces of music whose tempo accelerated, decelerated, or remained constant. In Experiment 2, participants completed a visuo-motor task in which the rate of stimulus presentation accelerated, decelerated, or remained constant. In Experiment 3, participants completed a reading task in which facts appeared on-screen at accelerating, decelerating, or constant rates. In all experiments, the physical duration of the to-be-judged interval was the same across conditions. We found no significant effects of temporal structure on duration judgments in any of the experiments, either when participants knew that a time estimate would be required (prospective judgments) or when they did not (retrospective judgments). These results provide a starting point for the investigation of how temporal structure affects one-off judgments of duration like those typically made in natural settings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-6203",
doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0059847",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059847"
}