Time perception and attention: The effects of prospective versus retrospective paradigms and task demands on perceived duration
@article{Brown1985TimePA,
title={Time perception and attention: The effects of prospective versus retrospective paradigms and task demands on perceived duration},
author={S W Brown},
journal={Perception \& Psychophysics},
year={1985},
volume={38},
pages={115-124}
}This research was designed to compare time judgments obtained under prospective conditions (in which subjects are instructed to attend to time) and retrospective conditions (in which subjects are unaware that they will be required to judge time). In Experiment 1, subjects prospectively or retrospectively judged the duration of intervals spent performing a perceptual-motor task at different levels of difficulty. The results showed that subjects tested under both research paradigms tended to give…
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