Modality differences in timing and the filled-duration illusion: Testing the pacemaker rate explanation.

ABSTRACT: Performance in temporal difference threshold and estimation tasks is markedly less accurate for visual than for auditory intervals. In addition, thresholds and estimates are likewise less accurate for empty than for filled intervals. In scalar timing theory, these differences have been explained as alterations in pacemaker rate, which is faster for auditory and filled intervals than for visual and empty intervals. We tested this explanation according to three research aims. First, we replicated the threshold and estimation tasks of Jones, Poliakoff, and Wells (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2171-2186, 2009) and found the well-documented greater precision for auditory than visual intervals, and for filled than for empty intervals. Second, we considered inter-individual di

SUBMITTER: Williams EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407723 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature