Abstract
Human temporal perception can be investigated as a process, which resolves an ill-posed problem with no unambiguous solution. That is, in order to recovery the temporal structure of events, it has to map the obtained zero, or “a half dimensional” temporal representation for the events upon a progressive one dimensional temporal time axis without any precise information for the progressive pace of time or duration between events. Even though, our perceptual system seems to solve this ill-posed problem by the use of some smart strategies in our everyday life to achieve approximate temporal structure of the events. We summarize the strategies of the human perceptual system by referring different types of temporal illusions. Based on the summary, we describe that the human perceptual system uses the facilitative strategy to reduce the delay of perceptual processing, and entrainment-based strategy to determine the temporal structure of evens in terms of salient features of the events, in order to solve the ill-posed problem in temporal perception.
