Temporal expectancies affect accuracy in standard-comparison judgments of duration, but neither pitch height, nor timbre, nor loudness
| Autor: | Michael Sopp, Jon B. Prince |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Male Loudness Perception medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulus (physiology) Audiology Loudness Pitch Discrimination Behavioral Neuroscience Judgment Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception medicine Humans Pitch Perception media_common Mathematics Expectancy theory Replicate Time Perception Female Timbre Pitch (Music) Psychoacoustics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 45(5) |
| ISSN: | 1939-1277 |
| Popis: | Presenting a stimulus at the most expected point in time should benefit its perceptual processing (Jones, 1976; Large & Jones, 1999). For example, accuracy decreases when comparing the pitch of two tones separated by a sequence of temporally regular distractors if the final tone is shifted away from the expected time (Jones, Moynihan, MacKenzie, & Puente, 2002). However, recent research could not replicate this effect (Bauer, Jaeger, Thorne, Bendixen, & Debener, 2015), so we explored possible explanations. First, we varied the size and probability of timing shifts of the comparison tone in 7 experimental combinations (N = 16 in each). Second, we strengthened temporal expectancies by using a rhythmically rich distractor sequence, either repeating the standard tone at the end of the sequence (N = 26) or not (N = 28). Third, we had listeners compare either the timbre (N = 55) or the loudness (N = 24) instead of pitch. No effects of temporal expectancy (nor interactions with musical training) emerged in these experiments; however, they did occur when participants judged the relative duration of time intervals (N = 38). That is, a temporal expectancy profile was only observable in the context of a temporal task, and did not generalize to other domains. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
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