Active2025 — present
Time perception in spaceflight environments
With: Dr. Alina Gutoreva
The question
How is time perception distorted under spaceflight conditions, and are temporal intervals encoded with the same representational geometry as spatial ones?
What the evidence supports
The study is at the design stage. The protocol has research approval from the aerospace department, clearing the project for data collection; no results are claimed yet.
Approach
Working from grid-cell accounts
The starting point is the body of work suggesting the entorhinal system encodes space and time in a shared format. If that holds, an environment that distorts the experience of duration is a natural place to look for the shared part.
Design and analysis plan
The experimental paradigm and the analysis plan are being designed together, with RSA as the intended tool for testing whether temporal intervals carry the same representational geometry as spatial ones. Research approval for the protocol has been secured from the aerospace department.
Findings
No results yet — the work is at the design stage.
What this does not show
- No data has been collected yet — nothing here is a result.
- Approval of a protocol is not evidence for the hypothesis it tests.