TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Do changes in the pace of events affect one-off judgments of duration?
JO  - PLoS one
A1  - Darlow, Hannah M.
A1  - Dylman, Alexandra S.
A1  - Gheorghiu, Ana I.
A1  - Matthews, William J.
SP  - e59847
EP  - e59847
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1932-6203
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059847
ID  - ref1
ER  -