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Gil, S. and Droit-Volet, S. (2011) How Do Emotional Facial Expressions Influence our Perception of Time? In: Masmoudi, S., Yan Dai, D. and Naceur, A., Eds., Attention, Representation, and Human Performance: Integration of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation, Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, London, 61-74.

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• TITLE: Emotional Context Distorts Both Time and Space in Children

  AUTHORS: Julie Fonseca Cruz, Kévin Vidaud-Laperrière, Claire Brechet, Pom Charras

  KEYWORDS: Emotion, Time, Space, Children, AToM

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, Vol.10 No.9, September 30, 2020

  ABSTRACT: According to a generalized magnitude system, the representation of time, space and number relies on a common cognitive mechanism. However, in the context of negative emotional stimuli, temporal durations undergo a subjective overestimation, while numerosity judgments are underestimated. This finding clearly challenged the existence of a generalized magnitude system. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether angry faces biases both temporal and spatial estimates compared to neutral faces in children aged 5 - 6-year-old and 9 - 10-year-old. Children were to judge as short or long either the temporal interval or the distance separating two visual stimuli in a bisection task. Overall, the study suggests that negative emotion with high arousal (angry faces) leads to a distortion of both duration and distance. Such distortion is reported early in development, even before the maturation of time perception.