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Gordon MS, Ataucusi A. Continuous sliding frequency shifts produce an illusory tempo drift. JASA EXPRESS LETTERS 2021; 1:053202. [PMID: 36154107 DOI: 10.1121/10.0005001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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An acceleration or deceleration in the rate of music is described as a tempo drift. This study investigated tempo drift and how tempo drift might be influenced by a sliding frequency shift. Drifts of 10% or greater in tempo tended to be accurately detected; however, those judgments were somewhat affected by the type of music. Continuous sliding frequency shifts that paralleled the tempo drift improved the accuracy of tempo drift judgments. When frequency shifts were independent from a tempo drift, they produced an illusory experience of the tempo change. Findings are reported with their implications for music and time perception.
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- Michael S Gordon
- Department of Psychology, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470, USA ,
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- Department of Psychology, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470, USA ,
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Karampela O, Holm L, Madison G. Shared timing variability in eye and finger movements increases with interval duration: Support for a distributed timing system below and above one second. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2015; 68:1965-80. [PMID: 25607465 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.998689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The origins of the ability to produce action at will at the hundreds of millisecond to second range remain poorly understood. A central issue is whether such timing is governed by one mechanism or by several different mechanisms, possibly invoked by different effectors used to perform the timing task. If two effectors invoke similar timing mechanisms, then they should both produce similar variability increase with interval duration (interonset interval) and thus adhere to Weber's law (increasing linearly with the duration of the interval to be timed). Additionally, if both effectors invoke the same timing mechanism, the variability of the effectors should be highly correlated across participants. To test these possibilities, we assessed the behavioural characteristics across fingers and eyes as effectors and compared the timing variability between and within them as a function of the interval to be produced (interresponse interval). Sixty participants produced isochronous intervals from 524 to 1431 ms with their fingers and their eyes. High correlations within each effector indicated consistent performance within participants. Consistent with a single mechanism, temporal variability in both fingers and eyes followed Weber's law, and significant correlations between eye and finger variability were found for several intervals. These results can support neither the single clock nor the multiple clock hypotheses but instead suggest a partially overlapping distributed timing system.
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Madison G. Sensori-motor synchronisation variability decreases as the number of metrical levels in the stimulus signal increases. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2014; 147:10-6. [PMID: 24268879 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Timing performance becomes less precise for longer intervals, which makes it difficult to achieve simultaneity in synchronisation with a rhythm. The metrical structure of music, characterised by hierarchical levels of binary or ternary subdivisions of time, may function to increase precision by providing additional timing information when the subdivisions are explicit. This hypothesis was tested by comparing synchronisation performance across different numbers of metrical levels conveyed by loudness of sounds, such that the slowest level was loudest and the fastest was softest. Fifteen participants moved their hand with one of 9 inter-beat intervals (IBIs) ranging from 524 to 3,125 ms in 4 metrical level (ML) conditions ranging from 1 (one movement for each sound) to 4 (one movement for every 8th sound). The lowest relative variability (SD/IBI<1.5%) was obtained for the 3 longest IBIs (1600-3,125 ms) and MLs 3-4, significantly less than the smallest value (4-5% at 524-1024 ms) for any ML 1 condition in which all sounds are identical. Asynchronies were also more negative with higher ML. In conclusion, metrical subdivision provides information that facilitates temporal performance, which suggests an underlying neural multi-level mechanism capable of integrating information across levels.
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Grondin S. About the (non)scalar property for time perception. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 829:17-32. [PMID: 25358703 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1782-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Approaching sensation scientifically is relatively straightforward. There are physical attributes for stimulating the central nervous system, and there are specific receptors for each sense for translating the physical signals into codes that brain will recognize. When studying time though, it is far from obvious that there are any specific receptors or specific stimuli. Consequently, it becomes important to determine whether internal time obeys some laws or principles usually reported when other senses are studied. In addition to reviewing some classical methods for studying time perception, the present chapter focusses on one of these laws, Weber law, also referred to as the scalar property in the field of time perception. Therefore, the question addressed here is the following: does variability increase linearly as a function of the magnitude of the duration under investigation? The main empirical facts relative to this question are reviewed, along with a report of the theoretical impact of these facts on the hypotheses about the nature of the internal mechanisms responsible for estimating time.
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- Simon Grondin
- École de psychologie, Université Laval, 2325 rue des Bibliothèques, Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 0A6,
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To count or not to count: the effect of instructions on expecting a break in timing. Atten Percept Psychophys 2012; 75:588-602. [PMID: 23269518 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0411-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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When a break is expected during a time interval production, longer intervals are produced as the break occurs later during the interval. This effect of break location was interpreted as a result of distraction related to break expectancy in previous studies. In the present study, the influence of target duration and of instructions about chronometric counting strategies on the break location effect was examined. Using a strategy such as chronometric counting enhances the reliability of temporal processing, typically in terms of reduced variability, and could influence how timing is affected by break expectancy, especially when relatively long target durations are used. In two experiments, results show that time productions lengthened with increasing value of break location at various target durations and that variability was greater in the no-counting than in the counting instruction condition. More important, the break location effect was stronger in the no-counting than in the counting instruction condition. We conclude that chronometric counting orients attention toward timing processes, making them less likely to be disrupted by concurrent nontemporal processes.
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Mitsudo T, Gagnon C, Takeichi H, Grondin S. An electroencephalographic investigation of the filled-duration illusion. Front Integr Neurosci 2012; 5:84. [PMID: 22232577 PMCID: PMC3249353 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2011] [Accepted: 11/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The study investigated how the brain activity changed when participants were engaged in a temporal production task known as the “filled-duration illusion.” Twelve right-handed participants were asked to memorize and reproduce the duration of time intervals (600 or 800 ms) bounded by two flashes. Random trials contained auditory stimuli in the form of three 20 ms sounds between the flashes. In one session, the participants were asked to ignore the presence of the sounds, and in the other, they were instructed to pay attention to sounds. The behavioral results showed that duration reproduction was clearly affected by the presence of the sounds and the duration of time intervals. The filled-duration illusion occurred when there were sounds; the participants overestimated the interval in the 600-ms interval condition with sounds. On the other hand, the participants underestimated the 800-ms interval condition without sounds. During the presentation of the interval to be encoded, the contingent negative variation (CNV) appeared around the prefrontal scalp site, and P300 appeared around the parieto-central scalp site. The CNV grew larger when the intervals contained the sounds, whereas the P300 grew larger when the intervals were 800 ms and did not contain the sounds. During the reproduction of the interval to be presented, the Bereitschaftspotential (BP) appeared over the fronto-central scalp site from 1000 ms before the participants’ response. The BP could refer to the decision making process associated with the duration reproduction. The occurrence of three event-related potentials (ERPs), the P300, CNV, and BP, suggests that the fronto-parietal area, together with supplementary motor area (SMA), is associated with timing and time perception, and magnitude of these potentials is modulted by the “filled-duration illusion”.
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- Takako Mitsudo
- École de Psychologie, Université Laval Québec, QC, Canada
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Bangert AS, Reuter-Lorenz PA, Seidler RD. Dissecting the clock: understanding the mechanisms of timing across tasks and temporal intervals. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2011; 136:20-34. [PMID: 20955998 PMCID: PMC3019300 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2010] [Revised: 08/05/2010] [Accepted: 09/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Currently, it is unclear what model of timing best describes temporal processing across millisecond and second timescales in tasks with different response requirements. In the present set of experiments, we assessed whether the popular dedicated scalar model of timing accounts for performance across a restricted timescale surrounding the 1-second duration for different tasks. The first two experiments evaluate whether temporal variability scales proportionally with the timed duration within temporal reproduction. The third experiment compares timing across millisecond and second timescales using temporal reproduction and discrimination tasks designed with parallel structures. The data exhibit violations of the assumptions of a single scalar timekeeper across millisecond and second timescales within temporal reproduction; these violations are less apparent for temporal discrimination. The finding of differences across tasks suggests that task demands influence the mechanisms that are engaged for keeping time.
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- Ashley S Bangert
- University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, Ann Arbor, 48109-1109, USA.
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Merchant H, Zarco W, Prado L. Do We Have a Common Mechanism for Measuring Time in the Hundreds of Millisecond Range? Evidence From Multiple-Interval Timing Tasks. J Neurophysiol 2008; 99:939-49. [PMID: 18094101 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01225.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In the present study we examined the performance variability of a group of 13 subjects in eight different tasks that involved the processing of temporal intervals in the subsecond range. These tasks differed in their sensorimotor processing ( S; perception vs. production), the modality of the stimuli used to define the intervals ( M; auditory vs. visual), and the number of intervals ( N; one or four). Different analytical techniques were used to determine the existence of a central or distributed timing mechanism across tasks. The results showed a linear increase in performance variability as a function of the interval duration in all tasks. However, this compliance of the scalar property of interval timing was accompanied by a strong effect of S, N, and M and the interaction between these variables on the subjects' temporal accuracy. Thus the performance variability was larger not only in perceptual tasks than that in motor-timing tasks, but also using visual rather than auditory stimuli, and decreased as a function of the number of intervals. These results suggest the existence of a partially overlapping distributed mechanism underlying the ability to quantify time in different contexts.
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Bizo LA, Chu JYM, Sanabria F, Killeen PR. The failure of Weber's law in time perception and production. Behav Processes 2006; 71:201-10. [PMID: 16386378 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2005] [Revised: 09/21/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Weber's law--constancy of the coefficient of variation--is an apparently ubiquitous feature of time perception, and forms the foundation of several theories of timing. We sought evidence for Weber's law in temporal production and categorization experiments. The production task required pigeons to switch between keys within a specified temporal window. The categorization task required them to classify a stimulus duration as either short or long. Weber fractions did not descend to a horizontal asymptote, but were U-shaped: they decreased as a function of target duration, and increased again at intermediate and long durations. This pattern conforms neither to Weber's law, nor to its generalized form (Getty, D.J., 1975. Discrimination of short temporal intervals: a comparison of two models. Percept. Psychophys. 18, 1-8). A model of counter failure accommodated the U-shaped pattern.
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Perbal S, Couillet J, Azouvi P, Pouthas V. Relationships between time estimation, memory, attention, and processing speed in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychologia 2003; 41:1599-610. [PMID: 12887985 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(03)00110-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The present experiment was aimed at investigating the effects of memory and attention deficits and of information processing slowing on time estimation in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Patients with TBI and normal control subjects reproduced and produced durations (5, 14, 38s) in both a control counting condition and in a concurrent reading condition. They also performed finger-tapping tasks at a free rate and at a 1s rate. Both groups were assessed on processing speed using a reaction-time task, and on memory and attention using a battery of neuropsychological tests. The results showed that time estimation was not less accurate in patients with TBI than in control subjects on the reproduction task or on the production task performed either in the control counting condition or in the concurrent reading condition. Conversely, duration judgments were more variable in patients with TBI than in control subjects on both tasks in both conditions. The results also showed that TBI patients exhibited slower reaction-times, and poorer working and episodic memory scores than control subjects. Most importantly, the variability index in the duration reproduction task was related to both working memory scores and processing speed measures, whereas the variability index in the duration production task was only related with the processing speed measures. The temporal performance pattern in TBI patients does not appear to reflect specific deficits in timing, but rather overall problems in attention, working memory, and processing speed mechanisms.
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- Severine Perbal
- Unit of Cognitive Neurosciences and Cerebral Imagery, LENA, CNRS, UPR-640, 47 Boulevard de l' Hôpital, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75 651 Paris Cedex 13, France
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Madison G. Variability in isochronous tapping: higher order dependencies as a function of intertap interval. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 2001; 27:411-22. [PMID: 11318056 DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.27.2.411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Isochronous serial interval production (ISIP) data, as from unpaced finger tapping, exhibit higher order dependencies (drift). This fact has largely been ignored by the timing literature, one reason probably being that influential timing models assume random variability. Men and women, 22-36 years old, performed a synchronization-continuation task with intertap intervals (ITI) from 0.4 s to 2.2 s. ISIP variability was partitioned into components attributable to drift and 1st-order serial correlation, and the results indicate that (a) drift contributes substantially to the dispersion for longer ITIs, (b) drift and 1st-order correlation are different functions of the ITI, and (c) drift exhibits break close to 1.0 s and 1.4 s ITI. These breaks correspond to qualitative changes in performance for other temporal tasks, which suggests common timing processes across modalities and tasks.
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- G Madison
- Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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The authors investigated performance in 2 rhythm tasks in young (M = 23.8 years) and older (M = 71.4 years) amateur pianists to test whether slowing of a central clock can explain age-related changes in timing variability. Successive keystrokes in the rhythm tasks were separated by either identical (isochronous) time intervals or varying (anisochronous) intervals. Variability was comparable for young and older adults in the isochronous task; pronounced age effects were found for the anisochronous rhythm. Analyses of covariances between intervals rule out slowing of a central clock as an explanation of the findings, which instead support the distinction between target specification, timekeeper execution, and motor implementation proposed by the rhythm program hypothesis (D. Vorberg & A. M. Wing, 1996). Age stability was found at the level of motor implementation, but there were age-related deficits for processes related to target-duration specification.
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- R T Krampe
- Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Germany.
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After examination of the status of time in experimental psychology and a review of related major texts, 2 opposite approaches are presented in which time is either unified or fragmented. Unified time perception views, usually guided by Weber's law, are embodied in various models. After a brief review of old models and a description of the major contemporary models of time perception, views on fragmented time perception are presented as challenges for any unified time view. Fragmentation of psychological time emerges from (a) disruptions of the Weber function, which are caused by the types of interval presentation, by extensive practice, and by counting explicitly or not; and (b) modulations of time sensitivity and perceived duration by attention and interval structures. Weber's law is a useful guide for studying psychological time, but it is also reasonable to assume that more than one so-called central timekeeper could contribute to perceiving time.
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- S Grondin
- Ecole de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
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Mangels JA, Ivry RB, Shimizu N. Dissociable contributions of the prefrontal and neocerebellar cortex to time perception. BRAIN RESEARCH. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH 1998; 7:15-39. [PMID: 9714713 DOI: 10.1016/s0926-6410(98)00005-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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We report a series a three psychophysical experiments designed to differentiate the contributions of the neocerebellar and prefrontal cortex to time perception. Comparison of patients with focal, unilateral neocerebellar or prefrontal lesions on temporal discrimination of 400-ms and 4-s intervals (Expt. 1) indicated that neocerebellar damage impaired timing in both millisecond and seconds ranges, whereas prefrontal damage resulted in deficits that were robust only at the longer duration. Patients with prefrontal lesions, however, also exhibited working memory deficits on a non-temporal task (Expt. 2), biases in point of subjective equality indicative of attentional deficits, and were disproportionately sensitive to strategic manipulations in a long-duration discrimination task (Expt. 3). In contrast, the pervasive timing deficits of cerebellar patients were relatively insensitive to strategic support and could not be readily explained by general deficits in working memory or attention. These findings support the hypothesis that neocerebellar regions subserve a central timing mechanism, whereas the prefrontal cortex subserves supportive functions associated with the acquisition, maintenance, monitoring and organization of temporal representations in working memory. Such functions serve to bridge the output of the central timing mechanism with behavior. Together, these regions appear to participate in a working memory system involved in discrimination of durations extending from a few milliseconds to many seconds.
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- J A Mangels
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
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