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Prevailing views of time perception posit that the duration of events, a scalar magnitude, results from the perceptual analysis of sensory data. In a series of behavioral experiments (Lambrechts et al, 2013; Martin et al, 2017) , we showed that when equating task requirements and controlling for evidence accumulation across experimental conditions, duration remains resilient to spatial and numerical interferences. In recent work (Jin et al., submitted), we combined ACT-R encoding model and EEG decoding to show a dissociation between sensory evidence accumulation and duration estimation. We also showed that working memory maintains duration in storage but does not directly contribute to timing processes (Herbst et al. 2025; submitted; Shen et al. , in prep). Last, I’ll present evidence questioning the automaticity of duration encoding (Nédélec & van Wassenhove, in prep). Altogether, these findings suggest a reevaluation of the computational goals of time perception.
