We report three experiments in which the events flanking a temporal interval were either related or unrelated, based on overlap in the letter identity of single letters (Experiment 1), in the conceptual congruency of color words and colored rectangles (Experiment 2), or in the conceptual congruency of sentence stems and their terminal words (Experiment 3). In all cases, we observed a bias for participants to judge the duration of temporal intervals as shorter when the flanking events were related. We draw an analogy between these temporal judgement distortions and those reported elsewhere (Alards-Tomalin et al. in J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 40(2):555–566, 2014) that revealed that the similarity in the relative magnitude of flanking events generate the same type of bias on duration judgements. The observation that non-magnitude dimensions of relatedness between flanking events can also bias duration judgements raise questions about the applicability of two influential theoretical frameworks for understanding the distorting effects that non-temporal stimulus dimensions can have on duration judgments, A Theory of Magnitude (Buetl and Walsh in Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 12:1831–1840, 2009, Walsh in Trends Cogn Sci 7:483–488, 2003) and the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (e.g., Lakoff and Johnson in Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought. Basic Books, New York, 1999). In our general discussion, we consider a number of alternative frameworks that may account for these findings.

我们报告了三个实验，其中时间间隔两侧的事件相关或不相关，基于单个字母的字母身份的重叠（实验 1），颜色词和彩色矩形的概念一致性（实验 2），或句子词干及其终结词的概念一致性（实验 3）。在所有情况下，我们观察到参与者在侧翼事件相关时判断时间间隔持续时间更短的偏见。我们在这些时间判断扭曲和其他地方报道的扭曲之间进行了类比（Alards-Tomalin 等人在 J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 40(2):555-566, 2014），这表明侧翼事件的相对幅度的相似性在持续时间判断上产生相同类型的偏差。观察到侧面事件之间相关性的非大小维度也会影响持续时间判断，这引发了关于两个有影响力的理论框架在理解非时间刺激维度可能对持续时间判断的扭曲影响方面的适用性的问题，量级理论（Buetl和 Walsh 在 Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 12:1831–1840, 2009，Walsh 在 Trends Cogn Sci 7:483–488, 2003）和概念隐喻理论（例如，Lakoff 和 Johnson 在肉体中的哲学：体现的心及其对西方思想的挑战。基础书籍，纽约，1999 年）。在我们的一般性讨论中，我们考虑了许多可能解释这些发现的替代框架。