The curious case of the fast feelers: a possible malfunction in a timing mechanism for perceived happening

White, Peter A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-6678 2025. The curious case of the fast feelers: a possible malfunction in a timing mechanism for perceived happening. Timing and Time Perception

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Abstract

There have been numerous reports of people experiencing events as speeded up or slowed down; for example other people are perceived moving as if in fast forward mode. This paper proposed a possible explanation for that. One part of the explanation is an information structure on the sub-second scale that represents recent perceptual history with events located and connected in time by means of time marker information. The other part is a calibration mechanism for updating the time marker information. It is proposed that a perturbation to the calibration mechanism may result in time markers being updated significantly more or less frequently than normal, resulting in apparent speeding or slowing, respectively, of events. Things are perceived, not as happening more quickly than normal, which is impossible, but as having happened more quickly than normal, because of the incorrect time marker information in the historical register.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers
ISSN:	2213-445X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 August 2025
Date of Acceptance:	16 August 2025
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2025 10:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/180481

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