Whereas SET offers explanations for many aspects of time perception and distortion, it remains unclear how duration information from multiple modalities is integrated to allow a crossmodal estimation of event durations.
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Visually-evoked distortion in time perception.
Feelings of transcendence of ordinary experience, distortions in time perception (e.g., time may seem to slow down), and hallucinations have also been reported.
Here, we refine this suggestion by showing that the salience of a target with respect to a stream of standard events - independently of whether the target is expected or not - is a determining factor for subjective distortions of time perception.
39– 41 More problematic for the pacemaker accumulator model are local distortions in time perception or the temporal alignment between different modalities, including reversals of temporal perception.
Moreover, if temporal sensory information about duration is simultaneously present in multiple modalities, crossmodal integration can also cause distortions of subjective time perception (e.g., Chen & Yeh, 2009; van Wassenhove, Buonomano, Shimojo, & Shams, 2008).
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.
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.
Here, it is argued that the unpredictability of a target is unnecessary for temporal distortions but that it is nevertheless likely to influence time perception.
