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Article Dans Une Revue Emotion Année : 2010

The effect of expectancy of a threatening event on time perception in human adults.

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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of a threatening stimulus in human adults in a temporal bisection task. In Experiment 1, for two anchor duration conditions (400/800 vs. 800/1600 ms), the participants completed trials in which the probe duration was followed by an aversive stimulus or a nonaversive stimulus. The results showed that the duration was judged longer when the participants expected an aversive rather than a nonaversive stimulus. In Experiment 2, the effect of the temporal localization of the aversive stimulus was also tested, with the aversive stimulus being presented at the beginning or at the end of the probe duration. The results revealed a temporal overestimation in each condition compared to the trials in which no aversive stimulus was presented. Furthermore, the temporal overestimation was greater when the expectation for the forthcoming threatening stimulus was longer. This temporal overestimation is explained in terms of a speeding-up of the neural timing system in response to the increase in the arousal level produced by the expectation of a threatening stimulus.
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Sylvie Droit-Volet, Martial Mermillod, Raquel Cocenas-Silva, Sandrine Gil. The effect of expectancy of a threatening event on time perception in human adults.. Emotion, 2010, 10 (6), pp.908-14. ⟨10.1037/a0020258⟩. ⟨hal-00965114⟩
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