Time's arrow and pupillary response

Time's arrow and pupillary response.

The psychological arrow of time refers to our experience of the forward temporal progression of all natural processes. To investigate whether and how time's arrow is mentally coded in individual everyday events, a relatedness judgment task was used. The items each consisted of a verb (probe) and an adjective or participle (target). The temporal orientation between probe and target was varied ei...

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The psychological arrow of time refers to our experience of the relentless forward temporal progression of all natural processes. To investigate whether and how time’s arrow is mentally coded in individual everyday events, a relatedness judgment task was used. The items each consisted of a verb (probe) and an adjective or participle (target). The temporal orientation between probe and target wa...

Time ’ s Arrow and Pupil Response 1 Time ’ s Arrow and Pupillary Response

The psychological arrow of time refers to our experience of the relentless forward temporal progression of all natural processes. To investigate whether and how time’s arrow is mentally coded in individual everyday events, a relatedness judgment task was used. The items each consisted of a verb (probe) and an adjective or participle (target). The temporal orientation between probe and target wa...

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The pupillary response of cephalopods.

This paper provides the first detailed description of the time courses of light-evoked pupillary constriction for two species of cephalopods, Sepia officinalis (a cuttlefish) and Eledone cirrhosa (an octopus). The responses are much faster than hitherto reported, full contraction in Sepia taking less than 1 s, indicating it is among the most rapid pupillary responses in the animal kingdom. We a...