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Article Dans Une Revue Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Année : 2018

Cognitive abilities required in time judgment depending on the temporal tasks used: A comparison of children and adults

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The aim of this study was to examine age-related differences in time judgments during childhood as a function of the temporal task used. Children aged 5 and 8 years, as well as adults, were submitted to 3 temporal tasks (bisection, generalization and reproduction) with short (0.4/0.8 s) and long durations (8/16 s). Furthermore, their cognitive capacities in terms of working memory, attentional control, and processing speed were assessed by a wide battery of neuropsychological tests. The results showed that the age-related differences in time judgment were greater in the reproduction task than in the temporal discrimination tasks. This task was indeed more demanding in terms of working memory and information processing speed. In addition, the bisection task appeared to be easier for children than the generalization task, whereas these 2 tasks were similar for the adults, although the generalization task required more attention to be paid to the processing of durations. Our study thus demonstrates that it is important to understand the different cognitive processes involved in time judgment as a function of the temporal tasks used before venturing to draw conclusions about the development of time perception capabilities.

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Psychologie
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hal-03159600 , version 1 (04-03-2021)

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Sylvie Droit-Volet, John Wearden, Pierre Zélanti. Cognitive abilities required in time judgment depending on the temporal tasks used: A comparison of children and adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018, 68 (11), pp.2216-2242. ⟨10.1080/17470218.2015.1012087⟩. ⟨hal-03159600⟩
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