The effect of actual event duration and event memory on the reconstruction of duration information

• Published in: Applied cognitive psychology Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 63 - 73
• Main Author: Burt, Christopher D. B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: West Sussex John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.02.1993; Wiley
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Factors; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Learning. Memory; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Public events; Recall; Human; Estimation; Memory; Stimulus duration; Cognition; Experimental study; Categorization; Response accuracy

Two experiments investigated the effect of actual event duration and event memory on the retrospective estimation of public event duration. Experiment 1 provided a typicality score for each of 20 public events. The typicality score represents the degree to which the event's actual duration devi...