The aftereffect of perceived duration is contingent on auditory frequency but not visual orientation.

ABSTRACT: Recent sensory history plays a critical role in duration perception. It has been established that after adapting to a particular duration, the test durations within a certain range appear to be distorted. To explore whether the aftereffect of perceived duration can be constrained by sensory modality and stimulus feature within a modality, the current study applied the technique of simultaneous sensory adaptation, by which observers were able to simultaneously adapt to two durations defined by two different stimuli. Using both simple visual and auditory stimuli, we found that the aftereffect of perceived duration is modality specific and contingent on auditory frequency but not visual orientation of the stimulus. These results demonstrate that there are independent timers responsible for th

SUBMITTER: Li B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460570 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature