Music, Evolution, and the Experience of Time

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-168
Author(s):  
John C. Bispham
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
Musical Tone ◽  
Future Expectation ◽  
Perception Of Time

This chapter explores the psychological structure and perception of time in music in light of recent theoretical discussion and proposals for specific features of the human faculty for music—qualities that are at once universally present and operational in music across cultures whilst also being unique to our species and to the domain of music. The author contends that music’s architectural foundations—configurations of musical pulse, musical tone, and musical motivation—provide a sustained attentional structure for managing personal experience and interpersonal interaction and offer a continually renewing phenomenological link between the immediate past, the perceptual present and future expectation. A crucial and distinguishing feature of our experience with music is thus the particular way in which we share intersubjective time and enact and create an extended moment by constantly merging from one perceptual present into the next.

Connotative Meaning of Time in Therapists' Conceptualization of Psychotherapeutic Interventions

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1211-1221
Author(s):  
Dawn S. O'Neil ◽  
Anthony F. Grasha
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Selection Of

This study examined the connotative meaning which beginner ( n = 15), intermediate ( n = 14), and advanced ( n = 15) therapists assigned to time in psychotherapy and their perception of time as a factor in designing therapeutic interventions. Therapists' conceptualization of the subjective experience of time as a component of psychotherapeutic interventions was assessed by examining their selection of metaphors for time, their semantic differential assessments of past, present, and future perspectives, and through their responses to a semistructured interview. Therapists at all three levels of experience appeared to view time for their clients as moving slowly, promoting growth, and allowing progress, with an emphasis on the importance of future time-based interventions for growth while the clients' past was viewed as reflective of distress. Responses appeared to be atheoretical and idiosyncratic, showing lack of clear integration of time with specific treatment interventions.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Droit-Volet ◽  
Natalia Martinelli ◽  
Johann Chevalère ◽  
Clément Belletier ◽  
Guillaume Dezecache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Depressive State ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Normal Perception ◽  
Over Time

The home confinement imposed on people to fight the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the flow of time by disrupting daily life, making them feel that time was passing slowly. The aim of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the evolution over time of this subjective experience of time and its significant predictors (boredom, decreased happiness, life rhythm, and sleep quality). Twso samples of French participants were followed up: the first for several weeks during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 1year later (April 2021; Study 1), and the second during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 6months (November 2020) and 1year later (April 2021; Study 2). Our study shows that the French participants have the feeling that time has passed slowly since the beginning of the first lockdown and that it has not resumed its normal course. This is explained by a persistent feeling of boredom characteristic of a depressive state that has taken hold in the population. The findings therefore suggest that the repeated contexts of confinement did not contribute to re-establishing a normal perception of time, to which a subjective acceleration of time would have testified.

The Relationship between Death Anxiety and the Subjective Experience of Time in the Elderly

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Kaye Quinn ◽  
Marvin Reznikoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Relationship

The present study explored the relationship between participants' level of anxiety about death and both their sense of purposefulness in life and their personal experience of time controlling for the effects of participants' general anxiety and social desirability set. Participants were 145 women aged sixty to eighty-five, members of senior citizens clubs in suburban New Jersey, who agreed to complete a booklet of questionnaires at home and return them anonymously. As hypothesized, respondents high in measured death anxiety were found to be more likely to express less sense of purposefulness to their lives, a sense that time is moving forward, a feeling of being harassed and pressured by the passage of time, an experienced discontinuity and lack of direction in their lives, an inclination to procrastinate and be inefficient in their use of time, and a reported disposition towards being inconsistent. For the most part, the relationship between death anxiety and the other variables was found to hold even when the effects of general anxiety and social desirability were partialed out.

scholarly journals Subjective experience of time in dementia with Lewy bodies during COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Torboli ◽  
Giovanna Mioni ◽  
Cinzia Bussé ◽  
Annachiara Cagnin ◽  
Antonino Vallesi
Keyword(s):  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Past Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Patients Experience

AbstractDementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms and has a more challenging clinical management and poorer prognosis compared to other forms of dementia. The experience of lockdown leads to negative psychological outcomes for fragile people such as elderly with dementia, particularly for DLB, causing a worsening of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Since an individual’s feeling of time passage is strongly related to their cognitive and emotional state, it is conceivable to expect alterations of this construct in people with DLB during such a difficult period. We therefore assessed the subjective experience of the passage of time for present and past time intervals (Subjective Time Questionnaire, STQ) during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID−19) in 22 patients with DLB (17 of which were re-tested in a post-lockdown period) and compared their experience with that of 14 caregivers with similar age. Patients showed a significantly slower perception of present and past time spent under lockdown restrictions. We argue that these alterations might be related to the distinctive features of DLB and their exacerbation recorded by the patients’ caregivers during the period of lockdown, though our results show that the patients’ experience of time passage in a post-lockdown period remained similarly slow. Overall, we show an impairment of the subjective perception of time passage in DLB tested during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-186
Author(s):  
Iris Lana
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Company ◽  
Archive Project ◽  
Archival Practices

The article discusses the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project, conducted by a team I headed in the years 2012–2015. 1 The analysis of this project will assist in understanding both its significance as an archival act of documenting the past, and its influence on the company's present and on Israeli dance. The method of analysis will include a description of the different practices involved in constructing a dance archive; a contextual discussion of archival practices; and a theoretical discussion, principally in the context of changes in current archiving practices and developments in critical thinking about dance as a discipline. The description of the course of events in this article mainly relies on my personal experience and involvement as director of the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project. The different proceedings, goals, considerations and decisions were documented in monthly reports and in the project's concluding document, and so assisted in tracing the chronicle and details of events. 2

The pains of detainment: Experience of time and coping strategies at immigration detention centres

2019 ◽  
pp. 136248061985598
Author(s):  
Liridona Gashi ◽  
Willy Pedersen ◽  
Thomas Ugelvik
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Centre ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
And Coping

In most jurisdictions, immigration detention centres are seen as an important part of the immigration control system. Research suggests that stressful waiting and the experience of uncertainty are common at such institutions. However, few empirical studies show how detainees manage these matters. In this article, we draw on fieldwork conducted at the only detention centre in Norway. Detainees described their situation as frustrating and emotionally challenging; and we show how they as a response developed a set of coping techniques aimed at ‘making their own time’. The most important were: (1) living in ‘slow motion’; (2) censorious attacks directed at the institution to break the monotony; (3) the use of benzodiazepines to regulate the perception of time; and (4) religious practices to connect the present with the future. We conclude that when investigating coping- and resistance strategies, we should not overlook the temporal aspects of them and their implications.

Greek History

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-277
Author(s):  
Kostas Vlassopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
Greek History

Two important recent books re-examine long-standing orthodoxies which have come under fire in recent decades. Julia Kindt challenges the orthodox model of Greek religion which has put thepolisas its central organizing principle, as manifested in the work of Christianne Sourvinou-Inwood and the Paris school. The book combines methodological and theoretical discussion with a series of case studies ranging from the Archaic period to the Second Sophistic. Kindt does not deny the value of thepolis-centred model for major aspects of Greek religious life; rather, her main disagreement is that it creates simplistic polarities and leaves aside or treats as exceptions many important aspects of Greek religion. While thepolismodel sees religion as embedded in the structures of thepolis, Kindt argues persuasively for the need to conceptualize Greek religion as a series of interrelated but distinct layers. She rightly stresses the autonomy of religion as a symbolic and figural system; and she emphasizes the significance of personal experience and agency and the ways in which practices such as magic illustrate the multiple links between personal experience and agency and the religious community of thepolis. Finally, of particular significance is her challenge to the standard polarity of local versus Panhellenic and the need to adopt a wider spectrum of layers and identities.

The sense of time in the north: a Sámi perspective

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuccio Mazzullo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Finnish Lapland ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time

ABSTRACTThis paper refers to some aspects of the theoretical anthropological debate on the perception of time and I shall argue, following Ingold (2000) that amongst the Sámi people time is understood as an unfolding of interrelated tasks, rather than as a linear succession of standardised and arbitrary units. I also argue that the Sámi perception of time is not opposed to the western perception, but rather entails a different approach to the significance of clock time. The results of my fieldwork, conducted among the Sámi people in Finnish Lapland, lend support to the idea that the basis for a people's shared understanding and subjective experience of time lies in the interaction of skilful agents in carrying out diverse but interrelated tasks. It is not sufficient to live in a place, to belong to a particular ethnic group or to be engaged in the same subsistence activity to perceive time in a certain fashion. No matter how much we change the combination of actors, the perception of time is generated in each case through situated activity within the landscape.

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