Presentation Information
[S7-04]Compressed experimentation: duration, passage of time, and the temporal structure of memory
*Marianna Lamprou Kokolaki1, Virginie van Wassenhove1 (1. CEA/DRF/Inst. Joliot, NeuroSpin; INSERM, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit; Université Paris Saclay (France))
Keywords:
duration,passage of time
We live in a rich, dynamic, and multisensory world that our brain segments into narratives yet time studies in lab settings provide impoverished (though well-controlled) environments.
Online experiments can be one step towards real-world settings by enabling comparative studies of temporal experiences (e.g. duration, passage-of-time, segmentation) using rich stimuli (e.g. virtual-environment) while testing a large and diverse pool of participants quickly. For instance, using novel duration and speed-of-time bisection tasks at realistic time scales, we showed that event density shapes temporal judgments (Lamprou-Kokolaki et al., 2023). Using a series of online experiments, we found that sequence chunking influences temporal distances in memory with a surprising observation: memorability changes create implicit boundaries that affect temporal distances (Lamprou-Kokolaki et al., in prep.). Thus, online experimentation can foster new approaches to more classical paradigms, providing robust results and serving as a powerful tool for conducting short, efficient, yet rich experimental studies.
Online experiments can be one step towards real-world settings by enabling comparative studies of temporal experiences (e.g. duration, passage-of-time, segmentation) using rich stimuli (e.g. virtual-environment) while testing a large and diverse pool of participants quickly. For instance, using novel duration and speed-of-time bisection tasks at realistic time scales, we showed that event density shapes temporal judgments (Lamprou-Kokolaki et al., 2023). Using a series of online experiments, we found that sequence chunking influences temporal distances in memory with a surprising observation: memorability changes create implicit boundaries that affect temporal distances (Lamprou-Kokolaki et al., in prep.). Thus, online experimentation can foster new approaches to more classical paradigms, providing robust results and serving as a powerful tool for conducting short, efficient, yet rich experimental studies.