Slowing the body slows down time perception

Foggy perception slows us down

Visual speed is believed to be underestimated at low contrast, which has been proposed as an explanation of excessive driving speed in fog. Combining psychophysics measurements and driving simulation, we confirm that speed is underestimated when contrast is reduced uniformly for all objects of the visual scene independently of their distance from the viewer. However, we show that when contrast ...

Time Slows Down during Accidents

The experienced speed of the passage of time is not constant as time can seem to fly or slow down depending on the circumstances we are in. Anecdotally accidents and other frightening events are extreme examples of the latter; people who have survived accidents often report altered phenomenology including how everything appeared to happen in slow motion. While the experienced phenomenology has ...

When time slows down: The influence of threat on time perception in anxiety

Why Time Slows Down during an Accident

After an accident, people often report that it felt a lot longer than it actually could have been in real time. Time seemed to slow down during the event. We tried to conduct a safe experiment in our laboratory to simulate a dangerous situation. We had participants look at a screen on which circles either moved on a collision course toward the participant or moved away from the participant. At ...

Critical slowing down in polynomial time algorithms.

Combinatorial optimization algorithms that compute exact ground states for disordered magnets are seen to exhibit critical slowing down at zero temperature phase transitions. Using the physical features of the models, such as vanishing stiffness on one side of the transition and the ground state degeneracy, the number of operations needed in the push-relabel algorithm for the random field Ising...