In these studies, we showed that human subjects were not basing the judgment of temporal order of two tactile stimuli on the somatotopical map but rather on a spatial map.
7 In this review, we will focus on the time scales associated with sensing the passage of time, as measured through tasks requiring judgments of durations or temporal relations among events, in the millisecond-to-second range.
If subjective time is not slowed down during the appearance of an oddball, what is responsible for distortions of temporal judgments relating to the oddball?
Manipulation of spatial attention by means of optokinetic stimulation biases temporal judgments in healthy subjects according to the side of space where attention is oriented: rightward attentional shifts induce temporal overestimation and leftward attentional shifts induce underestimation of temporal judgments [18].
In contrast, simply asking people how long they think a stimulus lasted has been described as a the "rawest" type of temporal judgment [16], [47], and may be a better measure.
Recalibration of temporal order judgments is proposed to be a temporal analogue to the motion after effect, with identical neural mechanisms underlying judgments of both time and space.
As was noted previously, the location order task is the classic implementation of temporal order judgments (e.g., Fraisse, 1984; James, 1890), and the identification of "where" appears to be a task that is not sensory system specific.
In two studies, participants recalled past pleasant and unpleasant experiences (Study 1) and competitive events in which there was a clear winner and loser (Study 2) and rated their temporal judgments of these experiences.
To address this issue, we recently developed a behavioral task of temporal order judgment in mice.
Such are the intangibles that situate Mr. McNair's judgment day somewhere outside the realm of temporal justice, beyond even the verdict of opinion polls.
