Attention and Interference in Prospective and Retrospective Timing

Subjects listened to a series of musical selections and then judged the duration of each selection. Some subjects were informed beforehand that timing was involved (prospective timing) whereas others were informed afterwards (retrospective timing). Half the groups performed a concurrent proofreading...

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Published in:Perception (London) 1992-01, Vol.21 (4), p.545-557
Main Authors: Brown, Scott W, Stubbs, D Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attention
Auditory Perception
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Judgment
Mental Recall
Music
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychophysics
Reading
Spatial perception. Time perception
Time Perception
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Summary:Subjects listened to a series of musical selections and then judged the duration of each selection. Some subjects were informed beforehand that timing was involved (prospective timing) whereas others were informed afterwards (retrospective timing). Half the groups performed a concurrent proofreading task during stimulus presentation. The results showed a trade-off between temporal and nontemporal task performance: prospective-timing groups were more accurate in judging time and were worse at proofreading, whereas retrospective-timing groups were relatively poor at judging time but better at proofreading. This pattern is consistent with Michon's notion of an essential equivalence between temporal and nontemporal processing, and supports the predictions of an attentional allocation model of timing. The proofreading task interfered both with prospective and with retrospective timing, and both types of time judgments were influenced in the same way by effects of stimulus context. These results imply that similar timing processes operate under prospective and retrospective conditions.
ISSN:0301-0066
1468-4233
DOI:10.1068/p210545