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Sylvie Droit-Volet is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with notable contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Statistics and Probability

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Sylvie Droit-Volet has published numerous papers across several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Timing & Time Perception
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Psychologica

Recent publications illustrate their engagement with time perception and emotional aspects during the COVID-19 pandemic:

  • Time and Covid-19 stress in the lockdown situation: Time free, "Dying" of boredom and sadness, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Time and Emotion During Lockdown and the Covid-19 Epidemic: Determinants of Our Experience of Time?, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • What factors underlie our experience of the passage of time? Theoretical consequences, 2021, Psychological Research
  • Judgment of duration and passage of time in prospective and retrospective conditions and its predictors for short and long durations, 2022, Scientific Reports

Collaboration is evident in their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Natalia Martinelli
  • Sandrine Gil
  • Pascal Huguet
  • Clément Belletier
  • Johann Chevalère

Best Publications

  • How emotions colour our perception of time.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Warren H. Meck

  • Perception of the duration of emotional events

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sophie Brunot;Paula M. Niedenthal

  • The time-emotion paradox.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sandrine Gil

  • Speeding up an internal clock in children? Effects of visual flicker on subjective duration.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;John Wearden

  • Emotional time distortions: The fundamental role of arousal

    Sandrine Gil;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Embodied temporal perception of emotion.

    Daniel A. Effron;Paula M. Niedenthal;Sandrine Gil;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Temporal bisection in children.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;John H. Wearden

  • Time and Covid-19 stress in the lockdown situation: Time free, «Dying¼ of boredom and sadness.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sandrine Gil;Natalia Martinelli;Nicolas Andant

  • Time perception, emotions and mood disorders.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Sensory modality and time perception in children and adults

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Warren H. Meck;Trevor B. Penney

  • Time perception, depression and sadness.

    Sandrine Gil;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Emotion and time perception: effects of film-induced mood.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sophie L. Fayolle;Sandrine Gil

  • “Time flies in the presence of angry faces”… depending on the temporal task used!

    Sandrine Gil;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Time perception in children: A neurodevelopmental approach

    Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Temporal Generalization in 3- to 8-Year-Old Children

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Angélique Clément;John Wearden

  • Anger and time perception in children.

    Sandrine Gil;Paula M. Niedenthal;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • What is the best and easiest method of preventing counting in different temporal tasks

    Anne-Claire Rattat;Sylvie Droit-Volet

  • Time, Emotion and the Embodiment of Timing

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sophie Fayolle;Mathilde Lamotte;Sandrine Gil

  • Perception of the duration of auditory and visual stimuli in children and adults.

    Sylvie Droit-Volet;Stéphanie Tourret;John Wearden

  • Cognitive abilities explaining age-related changes in time perception of short and long durations

    Pierre S. Zélanti;Sylvie Droit-Volet

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
John H. Wearden
John H. Wearden Keele University
Pascal Huguet
Pascal Huguet University of Clermont Auvergne
Emmanuel Bigand
Emmanuel Bigand University of Burgundy
Georges Dellatolas
Georges Dellatolas Grenoble Alpes University
Cindy Lustig
Cindy Lustig University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michel Fayol
Michel Fayol University of Clermont Auvergne
Marc Wittmann
Marc Wittmann Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michel Isingrini
Michel Isingrini François Rabelais University

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