ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an empirically grounded Dual Model of temporal experience that incorporates the advantages of the philosophical views on time perception and temporal consciousness. A key aspect of Dual Model proposal is that agency effects on time perception play a central role in the explanation of temporal consciousness. Temporal representations guide actions that are accurate and reliable, such as those involved in table tennis, in virtue of the amodal integration of the contents of these representations with the actual temporal structure of events. More specifically, at very early stages of simultaneity and temporal order perception, the relation between contents and accuracy conditions is more direct and unconscious. Cross-modal temporal information recalibrates asynchronous, within-sense temporal information, in order to guide motor control and intentional action. Complex and reliable behavior based on interval-timing skills has been experimentally confirmed, with various degrees of sophistication, across species.
