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Oberfeld D, Thönes S, Palayoor BJ, et al. Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation. Front Psychol. 2014;5:810doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810.
Oberfeld, D., Thönes, S., Palayoor, B. J., & Hecht, H. (2014). Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation. Frontiers in psychology, 5810. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810
Oberfeld, Daniel, et al. "Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation." Frontiers in psychology vol. 5 (2014): 810. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810
Oberfeld D, Thönes S, Palayoor BJ, Hecht H. Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation. Front Psychol. 2014 Jul 24;5:810. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25104945; PMCID: PMC4109439.
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Front Psychol. 2014 Jul 24;5:810. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810. eCollection 2014.

Depression does not affect time perception and time-to-contact estimation.

Frontiers in psychology

Daniel Oberfeld, Sven Thönes, Benyne J Palayoor, Heiko Hecht

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Section Experimental Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Mainz, Germany.

PMID: 25104945 PMCID: PMC4109439 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00810

Abstract

Depressed patients frequently report a subjective slowing of the passage of time. However, experimental demonstrations of altered time perception in depressed patients are not conclusive. We added a timed action task (time-to-contact estimation, TTC) and compared this indirect time perception task to the more direct classical methods of verbal time estimation, time production, and time reproduction. In the TTC estimation task, the deviations of the estimates from the veridical values (relative errors) revealed no differences between depressed patients (N= 22) and healthy controls (N= 22). Neither did the relative errors of the TTC estimates differ between groups. There was a weak trend toward higher variability of the estimates in depressed patients but only at the shortest TTC and at the fastest velocities. Time experience (subjective flow of time) as well as time perception in terms of interval timing (verbal estimation, time production, time reproduction) performed on the same subjects likewise failed to produce effects of depression. We conclude that the notion that depression has a sizeable effect on time perception cannot be maintained.

Keywords: depression; internal clock; time perception; time production; time reproduction; time-to-contact estimation; timed action task; verbal time estimation

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