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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Old emotional impact of change on time perception [Keywords:] the elderly, emotional, time perception Currently, the development of cognitive psychology and neuroscience has been linked. Emotions may provide for the operation of background knowledge, the concentration of attention, memory, storage and extraction, the whole process of cognition may be affected by emotions. In recent years of increasing concern to the mood and attention, memory and other cognitive operations and decision-making relationship. the relationship between mood and time perception is also an important part, especially the two in age and gender differences. As we age, widowed, economy difficulties, physical discomfort reason, the elderly, time perception and emotion, compared with the young people will show some specificity. So of old the relationship between mood and time perception appears to be very necessary. This paper reviews the mood of the time perception will change in time perception elderly mood changes and the relationship between the elderly and the young and the elderly in the face of the emotional impact of time perception. 1, the relationship between mood and time perception Early on the relationship between mood and time perception does not form a system of research and study results are inconsistent. Thayer, and Shiff (1975) refuted the conclusion that the duration of emotional stimuli is overestimated, Fraisse (1967 that the mood does not affect time perception . Some researchers also tested the emotional state of being manipulated, and obtained very interesting results. Pucelle by manipulating the contents of the task to change the subject’s emotional state, found that subjects on the tedious work and explore the changes mental activities were significantly different delay estimates, and lead to overestimation of time, and to explore changes in mental activity will produce a feeling of excitement and led to underestimation of time