Timing & Time Perception
September 17, 2026
Steve Taylor, Krisztina Egeto-Szabo, Marc Wittmann
Abstract We report the findings of a survey and a qualitative study of “time expansion experiences” (TEEs) in which time subjectively slows down dramatically. We found that 70% of a sample of 1043 US residents reported at least one TEE in their lives, with many people reporting multiple TEEs. The most significant trigger/context of TEEs in our sample was accidents/emergencies (52%), followed by...
Timing & Time Perception
November 12, 2025
Michele Pellegrino, Ludovica Ortame, Joseph Glicksohn et al.
Given the growing societal interest in how our environment influences time perception, in a world that is more volatile and going at a faster pace than ever, there is an increased need for the understanding of how attentional states and awareness impact time perception. In the current study we aimed at assessing the role of both internally and externally directed attention on temporal...
Timing & Time Perception
November 6, 2023
Stuart Hameroff
In neuroscience, the flow of time is a conscious experience produced by the brain. But in physics, time is either a process, or a dimension in four-dimensional spacetime geometry. Could all three explanations be correct? The Penrose–Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ theory suggests consciousness is a sequence of discrete, irreversible quantum state reductions occurring at an objective threshold (‘objective...
Timing & Time Perception
August 30, 2018
Lachlan Kent
16 citations
Duration perception is not the same as perception duration. Time is an object of perception in its own right and is qualitatively different to exteroceptive or interoceptive perception of concrete objects or sensations originating within the self. In reviewing evidence for and against the experienced moment, White (2017, Psychol. Bull., 143, 735–756) proposed a model of global integration of...
Timing & Time Perception
June 12, 2018
Ronald P. Gruber, Ryan P. Smith, Richard Alan Block
19 citations
Flow and passage of time puzzles were analyzed by first clarifying their roles in the current multidisciplinary understanding of time in consciousness. All terms ( flow , passage , happening , becoming ) are carefully defined. Flow and passage are defined differently, the former involving the psychological aspects of time and the latter involving the evolving universe and associated new...