Sensitivity to event timing in regular and irregular sequences: Influences of musical skill

Perception of timing is more context sensitive than sensorimotor synchronization

“…Large and Jones (1999;Experiment 1) found that a reduction in temporal sensitivity was caused not only by variation in the immediately preceding context, but also by variation in other trials in the same session. Related long-term effects of contextual temporal variability on time perception were observed by Jones and Yee (1997) and Yee, Holleran, and Jones (1994). Large and Jones attributed these effects to a widening of the temporal expectancy region of an attentional oscillator and to a slow rate of adaptation of this parameter.…”

Variability of timing in expressive piano performance increases with interval duration

“…This has often been observed in speech production tasks (e.g., Kozhevnikov & Chistovich, 1965;Martin, 1972). Also, longer lOIs may be mentally subdivided, which can reduce variability (Yee, Holleran, & Jones, 1994). However, such strategies generally presuppose integral ratios among different 101 durations.…”

Influence of a tone’s tonal function on temporal change detection

“…Temporal processing has been studied not only with clicks (e.g., Essens & Povel, 1985, Experiment 1;Halpern & Darwin, 1982; and repeated tones (e.g., Drake & Botte, 1993;Ehrlé & Samson, 2005;Essens & Povel, 1985, Experiments 2 and 3;Hébert & Cuddy, 2002;Hirsh, Monahan, Grant, & Singh, 1990;Hyde & Peretz, 2004), but also with tones in musical contexts (e.g., Drake, 1993;Drake, Penel, & Bigand, 2000;Jones & Boltz, 1989;Repp, 1998c). Temporal expectations lead to processing advantages for metrical sequences over nonmetrical (or weakly metrical) ones in production (e.g., Patel, Iversen, Chen, & Repp, 2005), perception (e.g., Large & Jones, 1999;Tillmann & Lebrun-Guillaud, 2006;Yee, Holleran, & Jones, 1994), and memory (e.g., Bharucha & Pryor, 1986;Hébert & Cuddy, 2002). In isochronous sequences, temporal expectations lead to higher processing accuracy for events occurring (or intervals ending) at expected time points in contrast to events occurring (or intervals ending) earlier or later than expected (e.g., Barnes & Jones, 2000;Jones, Johnston, & Puente, 2006;Jones, Moynihan, MacKenzie, & Puente, 2002;Large & Jones, 1999;McAuley & Jones, 2003;Repp, 1992Repp, , 1999.…”