In the experiment, participants perceived the amount of time they had spent looking at an image differently depending on how large, cluttered or memorable the contents of the picture were. They were also more likely to remember images that they thought they had viewed for longer. 'For over 50 years, we've known that objectively longer-presented things on a screen are better remembered,' says study co-author Martin Wiener, a cognitive neuroscientist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. 'This is showing for the first time, a subjectively experienced longer interval is also better remembered.' Research has shown that humans' perception of time is intrinsically linked to our senses. 'Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to encoding time, all sensory organs are in fact conveying temporal information' says Virginie van Wassenhove, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Paris'Saclay in Essonne, France. Previous studies found that basic features of an image,...
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