THE PERCEPTION OF TIME IN SCALE-MODEL ENVIRONMENTS
THE PERCEPTION OF TIME IN SCALE-MODEL ENVIRONMENTS
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DOI：
10.1068/p160005
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发表时间：
1987-01-01
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
DAVIS, R
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作者：
MITCHELL, CT;DAVIS, R
有人声称，当受试者观察不同尺度的模型环境时，他们对时间持续时间的体验相对于标准时钟时间的压缩程度与被观察模型的尺度相同。报道了一系列实验，受试者在观察不同尺度的模型环境时对持续时间做出判断。在每个实验中，呈现了两个不同规模的相似模型环境。使用了三种不同的模型：比例模型、铁路模型、客厅模型和抽象的非代表性模型。尽管个体差异很大，但还是取得了显著的效果。在某种程度上，较小的规模与主观时间相对于时钟时间的压缩有关，尽管其影响远不如之前报道的那么大。此外，当规模缩小到一定程度时，对持续时间判断的影响就会消除，甚至逆转。结果表明，时间压缩的效果与不同尺度环境中信息密度的不同有关，并且存在一个与尺度和环境类型有关的信息密度的最佳值。
It has been claimed that when subjects observe differently-scaled model environments their experience of temporal duration is compressed relative to standard clock time in the same proportion as the scale of the model being observed. A series of experiments is reported in which subjects made judgements of duration while observing model environments of different scale. In each experiment, two similar model environments of different scale were presented. Three different kinds of model were used: scale model railways, sitting-room models, and abstract nonrepresentional models. Despite considerable individual variability, significant effects were obtained. Smaller scale was, up to a point, related to a compression of subjective time relative to clock time, although the effect was nowhere near as great as that previously reported. Also, when scale was reduced beyond a certain point the effect on judgements of duration was eliminated, or even reversed. It is suggested that the effect of time compression is related to differences in the density of the information to be processed in environments of different scale, and that there may be an optimum value for information density related both to the scale and to the type of environment.