Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality

Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Contributors xv Part I Historical Sources 1 1 Excerpts from The Principles of Psychology 3 William James 2 The Development of the “Specious Present” and James’s Views on Temporal Experience 25 Holly Andersen 3 A Brief Account of Husserl’s Conception of Our Consciousness of Time 43 James Mensch 4 The Structure of Lived Time 61 Edmund Husserl (translated by James Mensch) Part II Contemporary Philosophies of Lived Time 75 5 Primal Impression and Enactive Perception 83 Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi 6 The Phenomenal Continuum 101 Barry Dainton 7 The Temporal Structure of Experience 139 Ian Phillips Part III Choppy Streams of Consciousness 159 8 Is Visual Perception Like a Continuous Flow or a Series of Snapshots? 161 Niko A. Busch and Rufin VanRullen Contents vi Contents 9 Are There Cracks in the Facade of Continuous Visual Experience? 179 Alex O. Holcombe Part IV Fragments of Time 199 10 Perceptual Asynchrony in Vision 201 Konstantinos Moutoussis 11 Constructing Time: Dennett and Grush on Temporal Representation 217 Bruno Mölder Part V Subjective Times and Lived Time 239 12 Temporal Windows as a Bridge from Objective to Subjective Time 241 Ernst Pöppel and Yan Bao 13 Time and Magic—Manipulating Subjective Temporality 263 Thomas Fraps 14 Subjective Duration in the Laboratory and the World Outside 287 John Wearden, Alan O’Donoghue, Ruth Ogden, and Catharine Montgomery Part VI Intersections: Timeless Philosophy and Timely Experiment 307 15 Subjective Time: From Past to Future 309 Valtteri Arstila and Dan Lloyd Part VII Off the Clock 323 16 The Neural Mechanisms of Timing on Short Timescales 329 Dean V. Buonomano 17 Illusory Distortion of Subjective Time Perception 343 Ryota Kanai 18 Cognitive versus Associative Decision Rules in Timing 355 J. Jozefowiez, A. Machado, and J. E. R. Staddon Part VIII What and When 377 19 What Determines Simultaneity and Order Perception? 379 Piotr Jaśkowski 20 The Research on Audiovisual Perception of Temporal Order and the Processing of Musical Temporal Patterns: Associations, Pitfalls, and Future Directions 409 Argiro Vatakis and Georgios Papadelis Contents vii 21 On the Flexibility of Human Temporal Resolution 431 Agnieszka Wykowska and Valtteri Arstila Part IX Action and Passion 453 22 Temporal Perception in the Context of Action 455 Kielan Yarrow and Sukhvinder S. Obhi 23 What Emotions Tell Us about Time 477 Sylvie Droit-Volet 24 Embodied Time: The Experience of Time, the Body, and the Self 507 Marc Wittmann Part X Altered Times 525 25 Variability of Duration Perception: From Natural and Induced Alterations to Psychiatric Disorders 529 Valdas Noreika, Christine M. Falter, and Till M. Wagner 26 Time Processing in Developmental Disorders: A Comparative View 557 Christine M. Falter and Valdas Noreika 27 The Potential Link between Temporal Averaging and Drug-Taking Behavior 599 Allison N. Kurti, Dale N. Swanton, and Matthew S. Matell 28 The Perception of Time in Hypnosis 621 Peter Naish 29 Time in the Psychopathological Mind 637 Melissa J. Allman, Bin Yin, and Warren H. Meck Part XI Reflections 655 30 The Disunity of Time 657 Dan Lloyd and Valtteri Arstila Index 665 ...