An Empirical Comparison of Audition, Vision, and Touch in the Discrimination of Temporal Patterns and Ability to Reproduce them

Gault, Robert H.; Goodfellow, Louis D.

doi:10.1080/00221309.1938.9709888

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“…The values of the long interval were 386 greater for visual than for auditory patterns because our own pilot work, as well as the results of other studies, indicated that, for patterns having identical temporal constants, visual patterns were more difficult to recognize than were auditory patterns (Cole et al, 1961;Fraisse, 1948;Gardner, 1968;Garner & Gottwald, 1968;Gault & Goodfellow, 1938).…”

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Intramodal and crossmodal sensory transfer of visual and auditory temporal patterns

Rubinstein

Gruenberg

1971

Perception & Psychophysics

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Section: Timingmentioning

confidence: 57%

Intramodal and crossmodal sensory transfer of visual and auditory temporal patterns

Rubinstein

Gruenberg

1971

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…For example, short temporal intervals (*50-2,000 ms) are discriminated and reproduced more accurately when the stimuli are auditory compared to when they are visual (Goldstone and Lhamon 1972;Grondin 1993;Stauffer et al 2012). Not only is this true for timing of single intervals, but also for multiple intervals put together in a temporal sequence (Collier and Logan 2000;Gault and Goodfellow 1938;Handel and Buffardi 1969). In sequences, however, the auditory advantage may be limited to temporal patterns that involve interval durations that are related by simple integer ratios (Glenberg and Jona 1991;Glenberg et al 1989;Schubotz et al 2000), such as 1:2 (e.g., intervals of 200 and 400 ms).…”

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See what I hear? Beat perception in auditory and visual rhythms

2012

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Our perception of time is affected by the modality in which it is conveyed. Moreover, certain temporal phenomena appear to exist in only one modality. The perception of temporal regularity or structure (e.g., the 'beat') in rhythmic patterns is one such phenomenon: visual beat perception is rare. The modality-specificity for beat perception is puzzling, as the durations that comprise rhythmic patterns are much longer than the limits of visual temporal resolution. Moreover, the optimization that beat perception provides for memory of auditory sequences should be equally relevant to visual sequences. Why does beat perception appear to be modality specific? One possibility is that the nature of the visual stimulus plays a role. Previous studies have usually used brief stimuli (e.g., light flashes) to present visual rhythms. In the current study, a rotating line that appeared sequentially in different spatial orientations was used to present a visual rhythm. Discrimination accuracy for visual rhythms and auditory rhythms was compared for different types of rhythms. The rhythms either had a regular temporal structure that previously has been shown to induce beat perception in the auditory modality, or they had an irregular temporal structure without beat-inducing qualities. Overall, the visual rhythms were discriminated more poorly than the auditory rhythms. The beat-based structure, however, increased accuracy for visual as well as auditory rhythms. These results indicate that beat perception can occur in the visual modality and improve performance on a temporal discrimination task, when certain types of stimuli are used.

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“…Psychophysical experiments have demonstrated that temporal discrimination is poorer in vision than in audition (e.g., Goodfellow, 1934;Grondin, 1993;Grondin, Meilleur-Wells, Ouellette, & Macar, 1998;Grondin, Ouellet, & Roussel, 2001;Grondin & Rousseau, 1991;Rousseau, Poirier, & Lemyre, 1983). Also, discrimination and reproduction of temporal patterns are superior in the auditory modality (Gault & Goodfellow, 1938;Glenberg & Jona, 1991;Glenberg, Mann, Altman, Forman, & Procise, 1989). When auditory and visual stimuli are in conflict with respect to their number, timing, duration, or rate, observers' judgments are typically more strongly influenced by the auditory than by the visual temporal information (Goldstone, Boardman, & Lhamon, 1959;Fendrich & Corballis, 2001;Morein-Zamir, Soto-Faraco, & Kingstone, 2003;Recanzone, 2003;Shams, Kamitani, & Shimojo, 2000;Walker & Scott, 1981).…”

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Rhythmic movement is attracted more strongly to auditory than to visual rhythms

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Penel

2003

Psychological Research

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People often move in synchrony with auditory rhythms (e.g., music), whereas synchronization of movement with purely visual rhythms is rare. In two experiments, this apparent attraction of movement to auditory rhythms was investigated by requiring participants to tap their index finger in synchrony with an isochronous auditory (tone) or visual (flashing light) target sequence while a distractor sequence was presented in the other modality at one of various phase relationships. The obtained asynchronies and their variability showed that auditory distractors strongly attracted participants' taps, whereas visual distractors had much weaker effects, if any. This asymmetry held regardless of the spatial congruence or relative salience of the stimuli in the two modalities. When different irregular timing patterns were imposed on target and distractor sequences, participants' taps tended to track the timing pattern of auditory distractor sequences when they were approximately in phase with visual target sequences, but not the reverse. These results confirm that rhythmic movement is more strongly attracted to auditory than to visual rhythms. To the extent that this is an innate proclivity, it may have been an important factor in the evolution of music.

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An Empirical Comparison of Audition, Vision, and Touch in the Discrimination of Temporal Patterns and Ability to Reproduce them

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Intramodal and crossmodal sensory transfer of visual and auditory temporal patterns

Intramodal and crossmodal sensory transfer of visual and auditory temporal patterns

See what I hear? Beat perception in auditory and visual rhythms

Rhythmic movement is attracted more strongly to auditory than to visual rhythms

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