Limits on introspection: distorted subjective time during the dual-task bottleneck.
Psychol Sci
; 19(11): 1110-7, 2008 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-19076482
Which cognitive processes are accessible to conscious report? To study the limits of conscious reportability, we designed a novel method of quantified introspection, in which subjects were asked, after each trial of a standard cognitive task, to estimate the time spent completing the task. We then applied classical mental-chronometry techniques, such as the additive-factors method, to analyze these introspective estimates of response time. We demonstrate that introspective response time can be a sensitive measure, tightly correlated with objective response time in a single-task context. In a psychological-refractory-period task, however, the objective processing delay resulting from interference by a second concurrent task is totally absent from introspective estimates. These results suggest that introspective estimates of time spent on a task tightly correlate with the period of availability of central processing resources.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atenção
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Percepção do Tempo
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychol Sci
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos