Continuous carryover of temporal context dissociates response bias from perceptual influence for duration.

ABSTRACT: Recent experimental evidence suggests that the perception of temporal intervals is influenced by the temporal context in which they are presented. A longstanding example is the time-order-error, wherein the perception of two intervals relative to one another is influenced by the order in which they are presented. Here, we test whether the perception of temporal intervals in an absolute judgment task is influenced by the preceding temporal context. Human subjects participated in a temporal bisection task with no anchor durations (partition method). Intervals were demarcated by a Gaussian blob (visual condition) or burst of white noise (auditory condition) that persisted for one of seven logarithmically spaced sub-second intervals. Crucially, the order in which stimuli were presented was fir

SUBMITTER: Wiener M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071004 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature