Really happy this is finally out (psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...). A lot of work (4 experiments!!!) by @alexandrenobre.bsky.social ! #neuroskyence

Officially deactivating our lab twitter account, so here are the things worth saving: pictures from our lab at the different @timingresforum.bsky.social . Looking forward to Tokyo this year!

Interestingly, this effect only showed up when FPs varied within a block. When FPs stayed constant, the difference vanished! This suggests that voluntary actions interact with uncertainty in temporal preparation. (6/7)

We found that: (1) When people triggered an event themselves, their RTs were slower than when the same event was externally triggered; (2) This was especially true for shorter delays (FPs), but the difference disappeared for longer FPs. (5/7)

Here, we explore how voluntary actions shape temporal preparation. In 4 experiments, participants responded to visual stimuli that appeared after a delay, sometimes triggered by their actions and sometimes externally. (4/7)

We also checked whether the scales were similar to their proposed constructs. What did we see? The majority (16 out of 30) had constructs most similar to their own scale, so there is some similarity between scales and constructs, but also some disagreement.

Most scales fall nicely in one of two big clusters, one more related to temporal experience and one to time perspective.

Here we got very good help from @rodrigocc.bsky.social. We took advantage of advances in transformer-based NLP and estimated the similarities across 30 scales. With this approach, you can create different visualizations of the scales and see how they relate.

So we took inspiration from @eikofried.bsky.social beautiful work on depression scales and aimed at doing something (loosely) similar. However, most time scales are based on affirmations to which participants have to agree/disagree. How do we know how similar these are?

Short thread about a preprint we have just finished: osf.io/preprints/ps... The short story: we used NLP to look at the semantic overlap across 30 scales that measure different aspects of subjective time. The longer version of the story in the following posts
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This helps too.. bsky.app/profile/ryst...

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