Subjective shortening with filled and unfilled auditory and visual intervals in humans?

Two experiments tested humans on a memory for duration task based on the method of Wearden and Ferrara (1993) , which had previously provided evidence for subjective shortening in memory for stimulus duration. Auditory stimuli were tones (filled) or click-defined intervals (unfilled). Filled visual...

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Published in:Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 2007-12, Vol.60 (12), p.1616-1628
Main Authors: Wearden, J. H., Goodson, Greg, Foran, Karin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation - methods
Acoustic Stimulation - psychology
Analysis of Variance
Audition
Auditory Perception - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Judgment - physiology
Learning. Memory
Memory
Memory, Short-Term - physiology
Perception
Photic Stimulation - methods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Students - psychology
Task Performance and Analysis
Time Factors
Time Perception - physiology
Vision
Visual Perception - physiology
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Summary:Two experiments tested humans on a memory for duration task based on the method of Wearden and Ferrara (1993) , which had previously provided evidence for subjective shortening in memory for stimulus duration. Auditory stimuli were tones (filled) or click-defined intervals (unfilled). Filled visual stimuli were either squares or lines, with the unfilled interval being the time between two line presentations. In Experiment 1, good evidence for subjective shortening was found when filled and unfilled visual stimuli, or filled auditory stimuli, were used, but evidence for subjective shortening with unfilled auditory stimuli was more ambiguous. Experiment 2 used a simplified variant of the Wearden and Ferrara task, and evidence for subjective shortening was obtained from all four stimulus types.
ISSN:1747-0218
1747-0226
DOI:10.1080/17470210601121916