Expectancy in humans in multisecond peak-interval timing with gaps

Fortin, Claudette; Fairhurst, S.; Malapani, Chara; Morin, Caroline; Towey, James; Meck, Warren H.

doi:10.3758/app.71.4.789

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“…Fortin & Tremblay, 2006;Fortin et al, 2009;Tremblay & Fortin, 2003). However, there are two important features of these experiments that may resolve the apparent conflict with our findings.…”

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Humans don’t time subsecond intervals like a stopwatch.

Narkiewicz¹,

Lambrechts²,

Eichelbaum³

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. breaks. The decrement in performance we observed far exceeded the stopwatch prediction, and also exceeded the simulated predictions of a modified stopwatch with a slowing pacemaker. The data thus favour either a counter that cannot be paused during sub-second durations or alternative models of sub-second interval duration discrimination which do not posit a count-based metric for time. We discuss several possible strategies which participants might have implemented in order to apply such clocks in the split-interval task. Permanent repository link

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Section: Relationship To Previous Split-interval Literaturecontrasting

confidence: 53%

Humans don’t time subsecond intervals like a stopwatch.

Narkiewicz¹,

Lambrechts²,

Eichelbaum³

et al. 2015

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“…Other evidence that allocating attention influences perceived duration comes from studies in which an interruption in a signal to be timed is expected (Fortin et al, 2009). Note that "expecting" here should not be confused with the key concept of expectancy in M. R. Jones and Boltz's (1989) dynamic attending approach, in which environmental cues lead attentional energy toward specific points in time.…”

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Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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Suppose someone had to prepare a review article on visual perception, instead of time perception. This individual would probably ask for a series of reviews, with at least one-and probably several-dedicated to color, distance, shape, and motion perception, and maybe to other aspects of visual perception. It would be very difficult to complete the same exercise for time perception since the categories of temporal experiences are not as clearly defined. However, for a reader to understand the scope of a text on time perception, it is essential to develop a representation of what the main research avenues or categories are. The present text should help the reader to grasp the scope of recent literature related to psychological time and time perception.After a brief overview of the various perspectives on what could be meant by psychological time, the review will propose to identify of series of key concepts and empirical findings that should delineate the field of time perception and timing, and will discuss some models of time perception. The article also provides a review of the main recent findings in the field in which a neuroscientific approach to timing is adopted. In this section, the roles of the cerebellum, of the cerebral cortices, and of the basal ganglia in the timing processes are emphasized. Time Perception Beyond the Focus of the Present ReviewThere is a wide range of research on psychological time and temporal processing, mainly because of the ubiquity of time in behavior and the relevance of a temporal perspective in regard to living organisms and events. There is a vast literature in social psychology as to how behavior is shaped by time (see Perret-Clermont, 2005, or Strathman & Joireman, 2005, which includes topics such as time management, time perspective, and time orientation, or the relative value of past and future (Caruso, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2008;Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Even within the scope of experimental psychology, some studies have emphasized how the temporal structure of events determines our perception of the world (see the second part of Helfrich, 2003).Some authors who are interested in consciousness have adopted a phenomenological perspective on time (see the first part of Buccheri, Saniga, & Stuckey, 2003). Indeed, time and consciousness have become more closely linked recently with the development of a new area of research on the concept of chronesthesia (awareness of subjective time; Tulving, 2002), as opposed to noetic consciousness (awareness of the world) or autonoetic consciousness (awareness of self in time). Interestingly, there is now evidence that even animals can anticipate the future (Roberts, 2008).There are many psychological time studies related in various ways to memory processes (Block & Zakay, 2008). One research avenue deals with the chronology of events in our lives, particularly the memory of the order of occurrence of these events (Damasio, 2002;Friedman, 1993 The aim of the present review article is to guide the reader through portions of the human time per...

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“…Although dual-task studies on the role of attention in timing covered a large range of durations (e.g., Fortin & Couture, 2002;Macar, 2002), in most studies using the break paradigm, target durations around 2 s were used and did not vary within experiments. To our knowledge, only two studies have tested the break location effect using various durations within a single experiment (Fortin et al, 2009;Gaudreault et al, 2010). Fortin et al (2009) contrasted three different target durations (2.4, 3.2, and 4.0 s) using a peak-interval procedure with breaks; the location effect was observed at all three target durations.…”

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“…To our knowledge, only two studies have tested the break location effect using various durations within a single experiment (Fortin et al, 2009;Gaudreault et al, 2010). Fortin et al (2009) contrasted three different target durations (2.4, 3.2, and 4.0 s) using a peak-interval procedure with breaks; the location effect was observed at all three target durations. In a time reproduction task, Gaudreault et al observed the effect with both 2.5-and 4.5-s target durations in two experiments, although the effect was stronger at the shortest duration in one experiment.…”

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“…The break location effect has been observed with various timing tasks, such as production of well-practiced brief time intervals (Bherer, Desjardins, & Fortin, 2007;Fortin, 2003;Fortin, Bédard, & Champagne, 2005;Fortin & Massé, 2000), temporal discrimination (Fortin & Tremblay, 2006;Tremblay & Fortin, 2003), and time reproduction in a peakinterval procedure (Fortin et al, 2009). Similar effects were found when the location of intervening stimuli was manipulated in an interval to be estimated, and an interpretation in terms of attention sharing was also suggested (Buffardi, 1971;Burle & Casini, 2001;Casini & Macar, 1997;Champagne & Fortin, 2008;Gaudreault, Fortin, & Macar, 2010;Macar, 2002;Rakitin, 2005;Rousseau et al, 1984).…”

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To count or not to count: the effect of instructions on expecting a break in timing

Gaudreault

Fortin

2012

Atten Percept Psychophys

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When a break is expected during a time interval production, longer intervals are produced as the break occurs later during the interval. This effect of break location was interpreted as a result of distraction related to break expectancy in previous studies. In the present study, the influence of target duration and of instructions about chronometric counting strategies on the break location effect was examined. Using a strategy such as chronometric counting enhances the reliability of temporal processing, typically in terms of reduced variability, and could influence how timing is affected by break expectancy, especially when relatively long target durations are used. In two experiments, results show that time productions lengthened with increasing value of break location at various target durations and that variability was greater in the no-counting than in the counting instruction condition. More important, the break location effect was stronger in the no-counting than in the counting instruction condition. We conclude that chronometric counting orients attention toward timing processes, making them less likely to be disrupted by concurrent nontemporal processes. Keywords Temporal processing . Attention: divided attention and inattention . Grouping and segmentationThe perceived duration of a period of time varies depending on the orientation of our attention: Time seems longer if our attention is oriented to its passage and shorter when we are absorbed in some concurrent activity. This interference effect, one of the most consistent effects in the timing literature (Brown, 1997(Brown, , 2008b, has contributed significantly to establishing the assumption that attention plays a critical role in time estimation in humans. Numerous studies, using a dual-task paradigm, have confirmed the imperative role of attention in timing under prospective conditions, when participants know before the beginning of the task that a temporal judgment will be required. When participants are performing temporal and nontemporal tasks simultaneously (e.g., perceptual, mental arithmetic, motor tracking), the perceived duration shortens with increasing difficulty or duration of nontemporal processing (

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Expectancy in humans in multisecond peak-interval timing with gaps

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

Humans don’t time subsecond intervals like a stopwatch.

Humans don’t time subsecond intervals like a stopwatch.

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

To count or not to count: the effect of instructions on expecting a break in timing

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