AUTHOR=Zhang Zhijie , Jia Lina , Ren Weicong 

TITLE=Time changes with feeling of speed: an embodied perspective

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurorobotics

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2014

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2014.00014

DOI=10.3389/fnbot.2014.00014

ISSN=1662-5218

ABSTRACT=The present study aimed to investigate whether the words describing different speeds can influence the subjective duration. Duration estimation of different speed words (fast-speed vs. slow-speed words in Chinese characters) were compared in temporal bisection task. We found that time bisection point (TBP) was significantly lower for fast-speed words than for slow-speed words, and the just noticeable differences (JND) were not significantly different between these two types of words. These results suggest that the durations of fast-speed words were overestimated compared with the slow-speed words and provide evidence to support the theory of embodied cognition in the context of implicit meaning of a speed word.