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Emotional Context Distorts Both Time and Space in Children

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According to a generalized magnitude system, the representation of time, space and number relies on a common cognitive mechanism. However, in the context of negative emotional stimuli, temporal durations undergo a subjective overestimation, while numerosity judgments are underestimated. This finding clearly challenged the existence of a generalized magnitude system. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether angry faces biases both temporal and spatial estimates compared to neutral faces in children aged 5 - 6-year-old and 9 - 10-year-old. Children were to judge as short or long either the temporal interval or the distance separating two visual stimuli in a bisection task. Overall, the study suggests that negative emotion with high arousal (angry faces) leads to a distortion of both duration and distance. Such distortion is reported early in development, even before the maturation of time perception.
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hal-04494707 , version 1 (07-03-2024)

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Julie Fonseca Cruz, Kévin Vidaud-Laperrière, Claire Brechet, Pom Charras. Emotional Context Distorts Both Time and Space in Children. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 2020, 10 (09), pp.371 - 385. ⟨10.4236/jbbs.2020.109023⟩. ⟨hal-04494707⟩
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