Abstract
Moments of some gestures may stand out from our constantly flowing life-time as memorable experiences. We feel subjective moments as our psychological present. Few behavioral acts can express a shared subjective experience so easily observable than people's embraces after a significant life-event. Spontaneous embraces from the 2008 Summer Olympics Games were analysed, and were found to last for about 3 s, comparable to previously described perceptual and motor units in humans and also in other primate species. These 3-s segments of time are suggested to be the basic temporal building blocks of our behaviourally expressed subjective experiences.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 389-393 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Ethology |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2011 |