ABSTRACT

The human ability to keep track of time can be distorted by several non-temporal stimulus aspects such as size or intensity. First studies indicate that not only physical but also implicit stimulus aspects can affect duration estimates. The present study expands these findings by investigating the effects of linguistic expressions including speed and duration information via temporal reproduction (Experiments 1 and 2) and temporal bisection tasks (Experiment 3). In Experiment 1, implicit duration was manipulated by combining verbs that denote slow or fast motion with a path expression (to stroll to school vs. to spurt to school). Reproduced durations were consistent with an effect of implicit duration but not implicit speed. To control whether implicit speed affects perceived duration when exempted from duration information, single manner of motion verbs were presented in Experiments 2 and 3. The results speak against an effect of implicit speed analogous to physical speed.

摘要

人类跟踪时间的能力可能会被一些非时间刺激方面（例如大小或强度）扭曲。最初的研究表明，不仅身体上的，而且内隐的刺激方面都会影响持续时间的估计。本研究通过时间再现（实验 1 和 2）和时间二分任务（实验 3）调查语言表达的影响，包括速度和持续时间信息，从而扩展了这些发现。在实验 1 中，通过将表示慢动作或快动作的动词与路径表达式（步行上学vs.冲刺上学）组合来操纵隐含持续时间）。再现持续时间与隐含持续时间的影响一致，但与隐含速度的影响不一致。为了控制当不受持续时间信息影响时内隐速度是否影响感知持续时间，在实验 2 和 3 中提出了单一方式的运动动词。结果反对内隐速度类似于物理速度的影响。