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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 4/2013

01-07-2013 | Original Article

Double bisection of auditory temporal intervals by humans

Auteurs: R. Emmanuel Trujano, Oscar Zamora

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2013

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Abstract

Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET) has been the leading theory in timing research, and has also influenced research into human timing. However, other timing theories exist, such as Learning to Time (LeT). The double bisection task was designed to test the SET and LeT theories in pigeons. The purpose of this experiment was to verify whether similar results emerge from a human adaptation of the double bisection task. The results indicated that humans perform the double bisection task in the same way as pigeons do. However, the assumptions inherent in LeT cannot be applied to humans. Two other explanations are also assessed here.
Voetnoten
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See for example Hinton and Rao (2004) for an empirical demonstration and Grondin (2001) for a theoretical treatment about the influence of chronometric counting on timing performance.
 
2
A log transformation was performed in order to correct the heteroscedasticity of the bisection point distribution in Type 2 bisection.
 
3
Data from a single participant in the LOG group who represented an outlier were excluded in order to correct a bias in the LOG group’s mean bisection point.
 
4
Since sphericity assumption was not reached, the Geisser and Greenhouse correction was applied.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Double bisection of auditory temporal intervals by humans
Auteurs
R. Emmanuel Trujano
Oscar Zamora
Publicatiedatum
01-07-2013
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2013
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-012-0449-5

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