Recent advances in understanding emotion-driven temporal distortions

- Emotions influence timing via changes in arousal, attention, and possibly memory.
- Emotion-driven time distortions are modulated by trait and state dependent factors.
- Evidence implicates the insula, rIFG, SMA, and amygdala in these distortions.
- Emotion effects on timing may impact cognition, behavior, and emotion itself.

Emotions are powerful drivers of distortions in time perception. Recent work continues to support arousal and attentional mechanisms of emotion-driven temporal distortions. A possible memory-related mechanism and various modulatory factors, such as age, gender, and psychopathology, have also been implicated in such distortions. Beyond the rich behavioral literature on this topic, neurobiological substrates associated with emotion-driven temporal distortions have begun to be identified and represent an important next step for research within this domain. The study of emotion-driven temporal distortions holds great promise for advancing our understanding of this perceptual phenomenon and how it may play a functional role in mediating changes in cognition, behavior, and emotion.