Engaging narratives evoke similar neural activity and lead to similar time perception.
Engaging narratives evoke similar neural activity and lead to similar time perception.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41598-017-04402-4
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发表时间：
2017-07-04
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Parra LC
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作者：
Cohen SS;Henin S;Parra LC
据说，当我们全神贯注于一个故事时，我们会忘记时间——“光阴似箭”。沉浸在故事中是如何导致这种扭曲的时间感知的？它与神经系统有什么关联？人们把时间和注意力都投入到一个吸引人的刺激上。对于叙事视频，注意力投入可以表示为不同观众的脑电图反应之间的相似程度。在这里，我们表明，这种神经参与的测量预测了观众愿意投入叙事视频的时间长度。与流行的看法相反，参与并没有扭曲对时间长度的平均感知。相反，更相似的大脑反应导致观众对时间的感知更一致。这些发现表明，通过捕捉观众的注意力，叙事视频使神经处理和主观时间感知同步。
It is said that we lose track of time - that “time flies” - when we are engrossed in a story. How does engagement with the story cause this distorted perception of time, and what are its neural correlates? People commit both time and attentional resources to an engaging stimulus. For narrative videos, attentional engagement can be represented as the level of similarity between the electroencephalographic responses of different viewers. Here we show that this measure of neural engagement predicted the duration of time that viewers were willing to commit to narrative videos. Contrary to popular wisdom, engagement did not distort the average perception of time duration. Rather, more similar brain responses resulted in a more uniform perception of time across viewers. These findings suggest that by capturing the attention of an audience, narrative videos bring both neural processing and the subjective perception of time into synchrony.