I wonder does this offer an explanation to the common feeling that when young (particularly in childhood) time passes experientially slower than it does as you get older. Is this purely a function of our metabolisms slowing down?The ability to integrate information over fine timescales, that is, at high temporal resolution, is thus fundamental to many aspects of an organism's ecology and behaviour. Furthermore, temporal resolution is also directly linked to the perception of the passage of time itself for humans, in particular when tracking fast moving stimuli (Hagura et al. 2012). From an evolutionary perspective, a trade-off exists between the demand for information at high temporal resolution and the costs of its acquisition given the energetic demands associated with increased rates of neural processing in the visual system (Laughlin 2001). This trade-off is likely to be shaped by various ecological (e.g. mode of predation) and environmental factors (e.g. light levels) as well as intrinsic factors (e.g. morphology) that will ultimately shape an organism's optimal temporal resolution for sensory perception. For example, predators of slow-moving prey may require less temporal resolution than predators that engage in active pursuit of fast-moving prey, such as raptors catching prey during flight.
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