Tempo sensitivity in isochronous tone sequences: The multiple-look model revisited

Miller, Nathaniel S.; McAuley, J. Devin

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“…In most studies using this method, intervals last between 250 msec and 1 sec. With this method, it has been shown that using multiple-instead of single-interval presentations improves discrimination (Drake & Botte, 1993), and that this improvement depends not only on the number of intervals in the first sequence (usually standard), but also on the number of intervals in the second (comparison intervals) sequence (McAuley & Miller, 2007;Miller & McAuley, 2005). Indeed, depending on the modality of stimuli marking sequences, it looks as if increasing the number of comparison intervals, regardless of whether they are presented first or second, is the key factor affecting discrimination (Grondin & McAuley, 2009).…”

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

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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“…On a more global level, average event rate-determined over an extended time period-conveys to individuals information about the overall (global) pace of environmental events. This article continues a line of research concerned with the nature of the mechanism(s) underpinning human timing and the role that local and global temporal context play in time judgment behavior (Jones & McAuley, 2005;McAuley & Jones, 2003;McAuley & Kidd, 1998;Miller & McAuley, 2005). Of particular interest in the present research is the issue of global pace in the auditory domain and how it may affect the listener's sensitivity to local sequence tempo.…”

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“…1 Assessments of tempo sensitivity using isochronous sequences generally show that as the number of sequence intervals increases, participants' tempo sensitivities improve (Drake & Botte, 1993;Grondin, 2001;McAuley & Kidd, 1998). For a limited range of time intervals, relative just-noticeable differences (JNDs) for both tempo and duration typically average 6% for single-interval (two-tone) sequences (Abel, 1972;Allan, 1979;Creelman, 1962;Getty, 1975;Miller & McAuley, 2005;Small & Campbell, 1962;Woodrow, 1951), whereas JNDs for multiple-interval sequences are sometimes less than about 2% (Drake & Botte, 1993;Friberg & Sundberg, 1995;Michon, 1964).…”

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Picking up the pace: Effects of global temporal context on sensitivity to the tempo of auditory sequences

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Miller

2007

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…That participants will be able to discriminate and properly rank the tempos of original and temporally manipulated unimodal auditory stimuli. This is essentially a baseline condition, as our ability to make tempo discriminations amongst artificial and real musical stimuli is already well established (Miller & McAuley 2005;Honing 2006). …”

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Speed on the dance floor: Auditory and visual cues for musical tempo

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Musical tempo is most strongly associated with the rate of the beat or "tactus," which may be defined as the most prominent rhythmic periodicity present in the music, typically in a range of 1.67-2hz. However, other factors such as rhythmic density, mean rhythmic inter-onset interval, metrical (accentual) structure, and rhythmic complexity can affect perceived tempo (Drake, Gros, & Penel 1999;London 2011). Visual information can also give rise to a perceived beat/tempo (Iversen, et al. 2015), and auditory and visual temporal cues can interact and mutually influence each other (Soto-Faraco & Kingston 2004;Spence 2015). A five-part experiment was performed to assess the integration of auditory and visual information in judgments of musical tempo. Participants rated the speed of six classic R&B songs on a seven point scale while observing an animated figure dancing to them. Participants were presented with original and time-stretched (±5%) versions of each song in audio-only, audio+video (A+V), and video-only conditions. In some videos the animations were of spontaneous movements to the different time-stretched versions of each song, and in other videos the animations were of "vigorous" versus "relaxed" interpretations of the same auditory stimulus. Two main results were observed. First, in all conditions with audio, even though participants were able to correctly rank the original vs. timestretched versions of each song, a song-specific tempo-anchoring effect was observed, such that sped-up versions of slower songs were judged to be faster than slowed-down versions of faster songs, even when their objective beat rates were the same. Second, when viewing a vigorous dancing figure in the A+V condition, participants gave faster tempo ratings than from the audio alone or when viewing the same audio with a relaxed dancing figure. The implications of this illusory tempo percept for cross-modal sensory integration and working memory are discussed, and an "energistic" account of tempo perception is proposed.

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Tempo sensitivity in isochronous tone sequences: The multiple-look model revisited

Cited by 53 publications

References 36 publications

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

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

Picking up the pace: Effects of global temporal context on sensitivity to the tempo of auditory sequences

Speed on the dance floor: Auditory and visual cues for musical tempo

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