Non-magnitude sources of bias on duration judgements for blank intervals: conceptual relatedness of interval markers reduces subjective interval duration.

We report three experiments in which the events flanking a temporal interval were either related or unrelated, based on overlap in the letter identity of single letters (Experiment 1), in the conceptual congruency of color words and colored rectangles (Experiment 2), or in the conceptual congruency of sentence stems and their terminal words (Experiment 3). In all cases, we observed a bias for participants to judge the duration of temporal intervals as shorter when the flanking events were related. We draw an analogy between these temporal judgement distortions and those reported elsewhere (Alards-Tomalin et al.

Constructions on an unwelcome exit: Bruce W. A. Whittlesea, 1950-2018.

On the event of his recent passing, this article provides a personal discussion of Bruce Whittlesea's contributions and career from the perspective of one of his former students. It summarizes the basic tenets of the theoretical framework he developed, the Selective Construction and Preservation of Experience (SCAPE) Account of Memory (Whittlesea, 1997). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Specific and non-specific match effects in negative priming.

The negative priming effect occurs when withholding a response to a stimulus impairs generation of subsequent responding to a same or a related stimulus. Our goal was to use the negative priming procedure to obtain insights about the memory representations generated by ignoring vs. attending/responding to a prime stimulus.

The effects of numerical magnitude, size, and color saturation on perceived interval duration.

The relative magnitude (or intensity) of an event can have direct implications on timing estimation. Previous studies have found that greater magnitude stimuli are often reported as longer in duration than lesser magnitudes, including Arabic digits (Xuan, Zhang, He, & Chen, 2007). One explanation for these findings is that different quantitative dimensions (size, intensity, number) are processed and represented according to a common analog magnitude system (Walsh, 2003).