![]() It is therefore too early to generalize the timing mechanisms involved in the processing of short durations to that of long durations. However, they have almost all focused their investigation of time judgment in humans on durations shorter than one minute. ![]() However, the question is: what is time? Is an internal clock capable of measuring all interval durations independently of the amount of time to be estimated? Most researchers who adhere to the internal clock models accept the idea that the same clock mechanism makes it possible to measure a wide range of interval durations going from a few hundred milliseconds to several minutes. The human brain is a clock allowing us to accurately measure time. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information file.įunding: The authors received funding for this work from H2020 European Research Council, Horizon 2020 research and innovation action, TIMESTORM, H2020-FETPROACT-2014.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Received: NovemAccepted: MaPublished: April 3, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 Droit-Volet et al. A theory on the emergence of the awareness of the passage of time and how it affects the judgment of interval durations lasting several minutes is therefore discussed.Ĭitation: Droit-Volet S, Monceau S, Berthon M, Trahanias P, Maniadakis M (2018) The explicit judgment of long durations of several minutes in everyday life: Conscious retrospective memory judgment and the role of affects? PLoS ONE 13(4):Įditor: Warren H. However, the awareness of the passage of time appeared to play a crucial role in the judgment of very long duration in humans. In addition, the emotional state and difficulty of the activity were significant predictors of the judgment of long durations. The results showed that the mean time estimates and their variability increased linearly with increasing interval duration, indicating that the fundamental scalar property of time found for short durations also applies to very long durations of several minutes. Their emotional state, the difficulty of the activity performed during this interval, and the attention that it required were also assessed, together with their subjective experience of the passage of time. In this study, individuals estimated interval times of several minutes (from 2 to 32 minutes) during their everyday lives using a cell phone they kept with them.
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