Open AccessSelective bias in temporal bisection task by number exposition
Author(s) -
Carmelo M. Vicario
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2007.1479.1
Subject(s) - bisection , task (project management) , exposition (narrative) , representation (politics) , computer science , perception , space (punctuation) , cognitive psychology , time perception , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , mathematics , psychology , neuroscience , art , geometry , management , literature , politics , political science , law , economics , operating system
Temporal experience can be modulated by a number of environmental factors such as quantity. Here I show that merely looking at numbers causes a bias in imaginative (but not perceptual) time bisection task that depends on the number’s magnitude. This suggests that automatic shifts of spatial attention to the left and right side, as a result of exposure to numbers, modulates temporal as well as spatial behaviour (2,3,4). This finding suggests that the representation of time and space produce certain patterns in neural maps that are decoded by means of the similar neural mechanisms
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