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    Altered temporal awareness during covid-19 pandemic
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024) van Wassenhove, Virginie; Department of Psychology; Runyun, Şerife Leman; Balcı, Fuat; Department of Psychology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on human well-being. A handful of studies have focused on how time perception was altered during the COVID-19 pandemic, while no study has tested whether temporal metacognition is also affected by the lockdown. We examined the impact of long-term social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability to monitor errors in timing performance. We recruited 1232 participants from 12 countries during lockdown, 211 of which were retested "post-pandemic" for within-group comparisons. We also tested a new group of 331 participants during the "post-pandemic" period and compared their data to those of 1232 participants tested during the lockdown (between-group comparison). Participants produced a 3600 ms target interval and assessed the magnitude and direction of their time production error. Both within and between-group comparisons showed reduced metric error monitoring performance during the lockdown, even after controlling for government-imposed stringency indices. A higher level of reported social isolation also predicted reduced temporal error monitoring ability. Participants produced longer duration during lockdown compared to post-lockdown (again controlling for government stringency indices). We reason that these effects may be underlain by altered biological and behavioral rhythms during social isolation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding these effects is crucial for a more complete characterization of the cognitive consequences of long-term social isolation.
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    The timing database: an open-access, live repository for interval timing studies
    (Springer, 2023) Aydoğan, Turaç; Karşılar, Hakan; Duyan, Yalçın Akın; Akdoğan, Başak; Baccarani, Alessia; Brochard, Renaud; De Corte, Benjamin; Crystal, Jonathon D.; Çavdaroğlu, Bilgehan; Gallistel, Charles Randy; Grondin, Simon; Gür, Ezgi; Hallez, Quentin; de Jong, Joost; van Maanen, Leendert; Matell, Matthew; Narayanan, Nandakumar S.; Özoğlu, Ezgi; Öztel, Tutku; Vatakis, Argiro; Freestone, David; Department of Psychology; Department of Psychology; Balcı, Fuat; Öztel, Tutku; Faculty Member; Teaching Faculty; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51269; N/A
    Interval timing refers to the ability to perceive and remember intervals in the seconds to minutes range. Our contemporary understanding of interval timing is derived from relatively small-scale, isolated studies that investigate a limited range of intervals with a small sample size, usually based on a single task. Consequently, the conclusions drawn from individual studies are not readily generalizable to other tasks, conditions, and task parameters. The current paper presents a live database that presents raw data from interval timing studies (currently composed of 68 datasets from eight different tasks incorporating various interval and temporal order judgments) with an online graphical user interface to easily select, compile, and download the data organized in a standard format. The Timing Database aims to promote and cultivate key and novel analyses of our timing ability by making published and future datasets accessible as open-source resources for the entire research community. In the current paper, we showcase the use of the database by testing various core ideas based on data compiled across studies (i.e., temporal accuracy, scalar property, location of the point of subjective equality, malleability of timing precision). The Timing Database will serve as the repository for interval timing studies through the submission of new datasets. © 2022, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.