Testing Models of Time Estimation (short communication)

  1. Martinez, M. B. Bueno 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Libro:
Time, Action and Cognition

ISBN: 9789048141661,  9789401735360

Año de publicación: 1991

Páginas: 173-176

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3536-0_19 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Resumen

The main aimofthepre~entstudy was to examine in the same design the representativevariables of memory storage-size. cognitive change and attcntional models with the aim of discoveringwhich of them best explains the human experience of duration. Subjects had to make duration judgementsabout the time it took to complete a levels-of-processing type task (either shallow. semantic or mixed(iecontextual change) conditions). The cognitive effort demandedhythese various task conditions was indexedbya second task which required half of the Ssineach condition to respond as quickly as possible to a tonepresented with an unpredictable IS!. The duration reproductions (real time 80 sees) were made after a filleddelayof120 sees either within a prospective paradigm or within a retrospective one. The main resultsshowed that when a person intentionally attends to the time, changes in the cognitive context operate as theprincipal indications for making the most accurate judgements of time. However, when attention to timeisonly incidental, cognitive effort is the factor that best explains the temporal estimation through an inverserelation with the sizeofthe reproduction made.

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