What Happens in a Moment

Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015)
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Abstract

Therehasbeenevidencefortheverybrief,temporalquantizationofperceptualexperienceatregularintervalsbelow100msforseveraldecades.Webrieflydescribehowearlierstudiesledtotheconceptof“psychologicalmoment”ofbetween50and60msduration.Accordingtohistoricaltheories,withinthepsychologicalmomentalleventswouldbeprocessedasco-temporal.Morerecently,alinkwithphysiologicalmechanismshasbeenproposed,accordingtowhichthe50–60mspsychologicalmomentwouldbedefinedbytheupperlimitrequiredbyneuralmechanismstosynchronizeandtherebyrepresentasnapshotofcurrentperceptualeventstructure.However,ourownexperimentaldevelopmentsalsoidentifyamorefine-scaled,serializedprocessstructurewithinthepsychologicalmoment.Ourdatasuggeststhatnotalleventsareprocessedasco-temporalwithinthepsychologicalmomentandinstead,someareprocessedsuccessively.Thisevidencequestionstheanalogrelationshipbetweensynchronizedprocessandsimultaneousexperienceandopensdebateontheontologyandfunctionof“moments”inpsychologicalexperience.

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Anne Giersch
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