Zaman kelimeleri ve uzamsal - zamansal metaforların süre algısına etkileri

Numerous studies have reported that subjective duration estimates are positively related to the magnitude of various non-temporal stimuli presented in different modalities. The subjective estimates of time are stretched as a function of increasing number (Xuan et al., 2007), stimulus size (Ono & Kawahara, 2007), luminosity (Goldstone, Lhamon & Sechzer, 1978), and complexity-intensity (Schiffman & Bobko, 1974). Our study investigated whether the temporal and spatial magnitude information conveyed by linguistic stimuli would affect perceived duration in a temporal reproduction task. In Experiment 1, we used duration words referring to different distinct durations (e.g. second, week), which implied a temporal magnitude. In Experiment 2, we used adjectives that were part of the spatial-temporal metaphors (e.g. long vs. short), referring to indistinct temporal as well as spatial magnitudes. Our results indicated a migration effect, meaning that participants over-reproduced the shorter target duration (2.4 s) and under-reproduced the longer target duration (4.8 s) in all conditions in both experiments. In Experiment 1, participants under-reproduced the longer target duration more when they saw "week" in the training and "year" in the reproduction. Yet, we did not observe this same semantic magnitude effect in other word pairs across two experiments. Overall, we did not find supporting evidence for magnitude information conveyed by language affecting subjective time estimates. Possible reasons for these results will be discussed.