Psychological time: Interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Sucala, Madalina ^a   Scheckner, Bari ^b   David, Daniel ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional models of time perception; Interval length judgments; Subjective passage of time judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054840241     PISSN: 13796100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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