What is it about?
Time perception has two components, an unconscious component that we use to measure duration and integrate time with space and a conscious component that is dependent on biological constraints, particularly homeostasis. This proposal is contrasted with a similar account by Zhou, Pöppel, and Bao (2014).
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Why is it important?
This approach opens the possibility that conscious awareness, in general, is dependent on homeostasis, or that it is homeostatic in character, while unconscious cognition is more computational in character. This would entail a substantial difference between conscious and unconscious information processing.
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It is interesting to think about this distinction between homeostatic and computational processing in terms of the distinction between conscious awareness and attention.
Carlos Montemayor
San Francisco State University
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This page is a summary of: Conscious awareness and time perception, PsyCh Journal, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.173.
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