Duration Adaptation Occurs Across the Sub- and Supra-Second Systems

Shuhei Shima; Yuki Murai; Yuki Hashimoto; Yuko Yotsumoto

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00114

Duration Adaptation Occurs Across the Sub- and Supra-Second Systems

Front Psychol. 2016 Feb 9:7:114. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00114. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Shuhei Shima¹, Yuki Murai², Yuki Hashimoto², Yuko Yotsumoto²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Integrated Sciences, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

After repetitive exposure to a stimulus of relatively short duration, a subsequent stimulus of long duration is perceived as being even longer, and after repetitive exposure to a stimulus of relatively long duration, a subsequent stimulus of short duration is perceived as being even shorter. This phenomenon is called duration adaptation, and has been reported only for sub-second durations. We examined whether duration adaptation also occurs for supra-second durations (Experiment 1) and whether duration adaptation occurs across sub- and supra-second durations (Experiment 2). Duration adaptation occurred not only for sub-second durations, but also for supra-second durations and across sub- and supra-second durations. These results suggest that duration adaptation involves an interval-independent system or two functionally related systems that are associated with both the sub- and supra-second durations.

Keywords: adaptation; duration; sub-second; supra-second; time perception; time reproduction.