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Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception.

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Lake, JI; LaBar, KS; Meck, WH
Published in: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
May 2016

Like other senses, our perception of time is not veridical, but rather, is modulated by changes in environmental context. Anecdotal experiences suggest that emotions can be powerful modulators of time perception; nevertheless, the functional and neural mechanisms underlying emotion-induced temporal distortions remain unclear. Widely accepted pacemaker-accumulator models of time perception suggest that changes in arousal and attention have unique influences on temporal judgments and contribute to emotional distortions of time perception. However, such models conflict with current views of arousal and attention suggesting that current models of time perception do not adequately explain the variability in emotion-induced temporal distortions. Instead, findings provide support for a new perspective of emotion-induced temporal distortions that emphasizes both the unique and interactive influences of arousal and attention on time perception over time. Using this framework, we discuss plausible functional and neural mechanisms of emotion-induced temporal distortions and how these temporal distortions may have important implications for our understanding of how emotions modulate our perceptual experiences in service of adaptive responding to biologically relevant stimuli.

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Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

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EISSN

1873-7528

ISSN

0149-7634

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

64

Start / End Page

403 / 420

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Humans
  • Emotions
  • Brain
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Lake, J. I., LaBar, K. S., & Meck, W. H. (2016). Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 64, 403–420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.003
Lake, Jessica I., Kevin S. LaBar, and Warren H. Meck. “Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception.Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 64 (May 2016): 403–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.003.
Lake JI, LaBar KS, Meck WH. Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 2016 May;64:403–20.
Lake, Jessica I., et al. “Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception.Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 64, May 2016, pp. 403–20. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.003.
Lake JI, LaBar KS, Meck WH. Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 2016 May;64:403–420.
Journal cover image

Published In

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

DOI

EISSN

1873-7528

ISSN

0149-7634

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

64

Start / End Page

403 / 420

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Humans
  • Emotions
  • Brain
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences