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Cecilia Deborah Navarro-Morales, Olga Kuldavletova, Adéla Kola, Thomas Fréret, Gaëlle Quarck, Gilles Clément, Pierre Denise
Abstract
Time perception can be distorted by factors such as arousal, attention or emotions. Recently, it has been demonstrated that stimulation of the vestibular system causes a contraction of subjective time (1). Conversely, the greater the amplitude of a whole-body rotation, the longer it seems to last, i.e. it causes a dilation of subjective time (2).To resolve this apparent inconsistency, and to better understand mechanisms of time perception during whole-body rotations, we evaluated time reproduction (2 or 4 seconds) in static (shakes) vs. two rotatory conditions (40° and 80°).The perceived time was different depending on the amplitude of rotation: estimates during rotations of 40° were shorter than during static (p <0.001) or rotations of 80° (p = 0.042), whereas estimates during 80° rotation were lower than during static condition (p = 0.042). Therefore, in the static condition participants over-reproduced time intervals compared to the rotation conditions. Moreover, time reproductions of rotations were shorter for 40° than for 80°.We interpret these results as the interaction of two simultaneous opposite effects: (1) a vestibular stimulation effect that contracts subjective time and (2) a space-time interaction that dilates subjective time for larger rotation (80°). This last effect would be a special case of the well-known space-time interference where the perception of the duration of a stimulus is influenced by the spatial dimension of this stimulus.Utegaliyev et al. Front. Integr. Neurosci. 16(2022).J.-Y. Choi, et al. Cerebellum 20, 509–517(2021).J. Loeffler et al. Front. Psychol. 9, 2609 (2018)