Faber, Myrthe and Gennari, Silvia P orcid.org/0000-0002-2242-4002 (2017) Effects of Learned Episodic Event Structure on Prospective Duration Judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1939-1285
Abstract
The field of psychology of time has typically distinguished between prospective timing and retrospective duration estimation: in prospective timing, participants attend to and encode time, whereas in retrospective estimation, estimates are based on the memory of what happened. Prior research on prospective timing has primarily focused on attentional mechanisms to explain timing behavior, but it remains unclear the extent to which memory processes may also play a role. The present studies investigate this issue, and specifically, the role of newly learned encoded event structure. Two structural properties of dynamic event sequences were examined, which are known to modulate retrospective duration estimates: the perceived number of segments and the similarity between them. We found that when duration and episodic event content are both attended to and encoded, more segments and less similarity between them led to longer attributed durations, despite clock duration remaining constant. In contrast, when only duration is attended to, only the number of segments influenced estimated durations. These findings indicate that incidentally or intentionally encoded episodic event structure modulates prospective duration judgments. Based on these and previous findings, implications for the role of memory mechanisms on prospective paradigms are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 American Psychological Association. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Journal Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2017 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000378 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/xlm0000378 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:113215 |