Multiple-look effects on temporal discrimination within sound sequences

Hoopen, Gert ten; Berg, Stéphanie Martine van den; Memelink, Jiska; Bocanegra, Bruno R.; Boon, Roel

doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0171-1

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“…The relative DL for the target interval (400 ms) was 6.8% in average. This result is consistent with previous reports of perceptual DL for temporal intervals of 400 ms [26], [37]. Previous studies have generated mixed findings with respect to the influence of musical expertise on the sensitivity of individuals to duration manipulation.…”

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Influence of Rhythmic Grouping on Duration Perception: A Novel Auditory Illusion

Geiser

Gabrieli

2013

PLoS ONE

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This study investigated a potential auditory illusion in duration perception induced by rhythmic temporal contexts. Listeners with or without musical training performed a duration discrimination task for a silent period in a rhythmic auditory sequence. The critical temporal interval was presented either within a perceptual group or between two perceptual groups. We report the just-noticeable difference (difference limen, DL) for temporal intervals and the point of subjective equality (PSE) derived from individual psychometric functions based on performance of a two-alternative forced choice task. In musically untrained individuals, equal temporal intervals were perceived as significantly longer when presented between perceptual groups than within a perceptual group (109.25% versus 102.5% of the standard duration). Only the perceived duration of the between-group interval was significantly longer than its objective duration. Musically trained individuals did not show this effect. However, in both musically trained and untrained individuals, the relative difference limens for discriminating the comparison interval from the standard interval were larger in the between-groups condition than in the within-group condition (7.3% vs. 5.6% of the standard duration). Thus, rhythmic grouping affected sensitivity to duration changes in all listeners, with duration differences being harder to detect at boundaries of rhythm groups than within rhythm groups. Our results show for the first time that temporal Gestalt induces auditory duration illusions in typical listeners, but that musical experts are not susceptible to this effect of rhythmic grouping.

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Influence of Rhythmic Grouping on Duration Perception: A Novel Auditory Illusion

Geiser

Gabrieli

2013

PLoS ONE

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“…Further work at shallower tempo contours, where model predictions differ most, using sequences of variable length, would aid comparative evaluation of the two models. This may not be trivial to achieve, as tempo contours below 2.5% can be difficult to perceive without a large number of intervals (Friberg and Sundberg, 1995), while the present evidence for the multiple-look model relies on relatively few intervals, with recent work demonstrating significantly diminishing returns for longer sequences (Drake and Botte, 1993;Miller and McAuley, 2005;ten Hoopen et al, 2011).…”

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Temporal predictions based on a gradual change in tempo

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Griffiths

2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Previous studies investigating sensitivity to step changes in tempo and prediction of tone onset time have generally utilized isochronous sequences. This study investigates subjects' ability to detect deviations from a gradual change in the tempo of a tone sequence (experiment 1) and their judgment of the perceptually optimal timing of this tone (experiment 2). In experiment 1, inter-onset-intervals within pairs of eight-tone sequences followed a geometric progression to create a gradual tempo change. In one sequence, the final tone was presented either earlier or later than specified by the progression. Subjects performed well at detecting deviations that exaggerated the tempo progression but poorly when it was counteracted. Experiment 2 used similar pairs except that the final tone was always presented earlier in one sequence than the other. Final interval length was adaptively adjusted to subjects' judgments; it was adjudged in best agreement with the progression when its length was roughly half way between the mathematically correct value and the length of the penultimate interval. The data support "multiple-look" and entrainment models of tempo sensitivity and suggest that temporal prediction is based less on the tempo contour of a whole sequence than on the duration of the preceding interval.

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“…3, the Weber fraction is higher in the 1-interval condition than in the two other conditions. This is not surprising given that it is known that performance is better when multiple instead of single intervals are presented (see for instance [47][48][49]). However, the results also revealed that in the three conditions under investigation, the Weber fraction is not constant.…”

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About the (Non)scalar Property for Time Perception

Grondin

2014

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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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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Multiple-look effects on temporal discrimination within sound sequences

Cited by 20 publications

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Influence of Rhythmic Grouping on Duration Perception: A Novel Auditory Illusion

Influence of Rhythmic Grouping on Duration Perception: A Novel Auditory Illusion

Temporal predictions based on a gradual change in tempo

About the (Non)scalar Property for Time Perception

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