Filkin, Cameron Laszlo (2023) Arousing images may change how time subjectively passes depending on image memorability. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Understanding the factors that influence what makes images memorable has garnered significant attention in recent years. This study investigates the relationship between image memorability and the perception of time for arousing images. Drawing on the attentional-gate model, we explored how levels of arousal influence the estimation of temporal durations. Participants (N = 50) completed a temporal bisection task in which they compared the duration of presented images to reference durations learned in a training task. The stimuli consisted of 154 images with a subset from LaMem including memorability scores and images from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) with varying levels of arousal and predicted memorability scores. Results showed no significant differences despite expecting highly memorable images to lead to overestimations of time, while less memorable images leading to underestimations. There were no significant effects of levels of arousal, however, there was a tendency for high levels of arousal to create underestimations, compared to low levels of arousal. Taken together, these findings suggest that further research is needed to understand the relationship between image memorability and time perception, particularly concerning directionality. They also open the discussion for arousal’s role in information processing due to its impact on time perception within the framework of internal clock models. Keywords: image memorability, arousal, time perception, temporal bisection task
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Christodoulou, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2023 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2023 12:04 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2584 |
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