The Illusions of Time Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception Edited by Valtteri Arstila · Adrian Bardon Sean Enda Power · Argiro Vatakis The Illusions of Time Valtteri Arstila • Adrian Bardon Sean Enda Power • Argiro Vatakis Editors The Illusions of Time Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception Editors Valtteri Arstila Adrian Bardon University of Turku Wake Forest University Turku, Finland Winston-Salem, NC, USA Sean Enda Power Argiro Vatakis University College Cork Panteion University of Social and Political Cork, Ireland Sciences Athens, Greece ISBN 978-3-030-22047-1 ISBN 978-3-030-22048-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22048-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and trans- mission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Yurii Perepadia © 123RF.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Contents Part I The Passage of Time 1 1 One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion 3 Natalja Deng 2 Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes? 17 Kristie Miller 3 The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage 35 Maria Balcells 4 The Perception of Duration and the Judgment of the Passage of Time 53 Luke A. Jones v vi Contents Part II D uration 69 5 The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena: Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches 71 Rolf Ulrich and Karin M. Bausenhart 6 Why the Intrinsic Value of Hedonic Sensations Is Not Quantifiable 91 Ingmar Persson 7 The Temporal Dynamic of Emotion Effects on Judgment of Durations 103 Sylvie Droit-Volet 8 Hidden Duration: Time-Lag in the World and Mind 127 Kristoffer Sundberg 9 Modulations in the Experience of Duration 145 Marc Wittmann, Tijana Jokic, and Eric Pfeifer 10 Against Illusions of Duration 163 Sean Enda Power Part III Simultaneity and Temporal Order 185 11 Causality Guides Time Perception 187 Andrea Desantis and Marc Buehner 12 Getting Stuck in the Ordered Sequence: Disrupted Temporal Processing in Patients with Schizophrenia and What It Tells Us About the Sense of Time Continuity 205 Anne Giersch Contents vii 13 When the Perception of a Synchronous World Is— Mostly—Just an Illusion 225 Nadia Paraskevoudi and Argiro Vatakis Part IV Cognition and Representation of Temporal Phenomena 259 14 Time Opined: A Being in the Moment 261 Mark A. Elliott 15 Temporal Binding and the Perception/Cognition Boundary 275 Christoph Hoerl 16 Spatiotemporal Illusions Involving Perceived Motion 289 Timothy L. Hubbard 17 Perceptual Illusions Caused by Discrete Sampling 315 Rodika Sokoliuk and Rufin VanRullen 18 Time Markers and Temporal Illusions 339 Valtteri Arstila Index 359 List of Contributors Valtteri Arstila Department of Philosophy & Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Maria Balcells Department of Philosophy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA Adrian Bardon Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA Karin M. Bausenhart University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Marc Buehner School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Natalja Deng Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Andrea Desantis Département Traitement de l’Information et Systèmes, ONERA, Salon-de-Provence, France Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France ix x List of Contributors Sylvie Droit-Volet CNRS, UMR 6024, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France Mark A. Elliott School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Republic of Ireland Anne Giersch INSERM U1114, Pôle de Psychiatrie, Centre Hospitalier Régional, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Christoph Hoerl Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Timothy L. Hubbard Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, USA Tijana Jokic School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Luke A. Jones Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Kristie Miller Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Nadia Paraskevoudi Brainlab, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Ingmar Persson University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK List of Contributors xi Eric Pfeifer Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Sean Enda Power Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Rodika Sokoliuk Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Kristoffer Sundberg University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Rolf Ulrich University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Rufin VanRullen Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Argiro Vatakis Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens, Greece Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Marc Wittmann Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany