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The "dual klepsydra model" (DKM) of internal time representation successfully models duration reproduction data, but relations between the DKM-based parameter kappa ("loss rate") and procedural variables (presentation modality) or individual characteristics (cognitive indices, age, sex) remained as yet unexplored. For that purpose, were-analyzed data from an earlier time reproduction study (N = 100), using visually or acoustically presented intervals of 1-5 sec. duration. Typical values of parameter kappa were approximately 0.03-0.04 sec.(-1), corresponding to relaxation times of internal "lossy integrators" of approximately 30 sec. Significant effects of presentation modality (smaller kappa values for the visual reproduction task) and of age (greater kappa in acoustic reproduction with increasing age) were observed. Cognitive variables (working memory, general fluid reasoning, attention) and sex of participants were not associated with kappa. Cognitive functions seem to play only a minor, if any, role at the level of time representation addressed by the DKM.
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Data from three experiments on serial perception of temporal intervals in the supra-second domain are reported. Sequences of short acoustic signals ("pips") separated by periods of silence were presented to the observers. Two types of time series, geometric or alternating, were used, where the modulus 1+δ of the inter-pip series and the base duration Tb (range from 1.1 to 6s) were varied as independent parameters. The observers had to judge whether the series were accelerating, decelerating, or uniform (3 paradigm), or to distinguish regular from irregular sequences (2 paradigm). "Intervals of subjective uniformity" (isus) were obtained by fitting Gaussian psychometric functions to individual subjects' responses. Progression towards longer base durations (Tb=4.4 or 6s) shifts the isus towards negative δs, i.e., accelerating series. This finding is compatible with the phenomenon of "subjective shortening" of past temporal intervals, which is naturally accounted for by the lossy integration model of internal time representation. The opposite effect observed for short durations (Tb=1.1 or 1.5s) remains unexplained by the lossy integration model, and presents a challenge for further research.
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Action of a hallucinogenic substance, psilocybin, on internal time representation was investigated in two double-blind, placebo-controlled studies: Experiment 1 with 12 subjects and graded doses, and Experiment 2 with 9 subjects and a very low dose. The task consisted in repeated reproductions of time intervals in the range from 1.5 to 5s. The effects were assessed by parameter kappa of the 'dual klepsydra' model of internal time representation, fitted to individual response data and intra-individually normalized with respect to initial values. The estimates kappa were in the same order of magnitude as in earlier studies. In both experiments, kappa was significantly increased by psilocybin at 90 min from the drug intake, indicating a higher loss rate of the internal duration representation. These findings are tentatively linked to qualitative alterations of subjective time in altered states of consciousness.
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- Wittmann (3)
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- Englisch (3)
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- Adult
- Acoustic Stimulation (1)
- Acoustic Stimulation/methods (1)
- Age Factors (1)
- Aged (1)
- Aged, 80 and over (1)
- *Attention (1)
- Auditory Perception/*physiology (1)
- Brain/*drug effects/physiology (1)
- *Cognition (1)
- Cognition/*drug effects/physiology (1)
- Consciousness Disorders/chemically induced (1)
- Discrimination, Psychological/*physiology (1)
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug (1)
- Duration discrimination (1)
- Female (3)
- Hallucinogens/*administration & dosage (1)
- Humans (3)
- Interval of subjective uniformity (1)
- Judgment/*drug effects/physiology (1)
- Judgment/physiology (1)
- Male (3)
- *Memory, Short-Term (1)
- Mental Processes/drug effects/physiology (1)
- Middle Aged (1)
- Perspectival contraction of time (1)
- Photic Stimulation (1)
- Psilocybin/*administration & dosage (1)
- Sex Factors (1)
- Subjective shortening (1)
- Task Performance and Analysis (1)
- Time Factors (2)
- *Time Perception (1)
- Time perception (1)
- Time Perception/*drug effects/physiology (1)
- Time Perception/*physiology (1)
- Uniformity illusion (1)
- Young Adult (2)