Temporal reproductions are influenced by an internal reference: Explaining the Vierordt effect

Bausenhart, Karin M.; Dyjas, Oliver; Ulrich, Rolf

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.011

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“…This suggests that the mid-point of the stimulus range is valid to control to a large extent the change in the internal reference. This was further supported by a finding on temporal reproductions, which showed that the reproduction durations were almost identical to the physical duration when the comparison duration was presented after the medium standard duration (Bausenhart et al, 2014). Thus, in the present study, participants were adapted to a medium duration stimulus and subsequently tested to both shorter and longer duration stimuli in one block.…”

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“…It has been suggested that making decision about time relies not only on the current physical stimuli, but also on an internal reference for time judgment (Grondin, 2005; Dyjas et al, 2012; Bausenhart et al, 2014). For example, the implicit memory model recently suggested that the perception of duration is a noisy sensory process against an adaptive memory prior (Wiener et al, 2014; Wiener and Thompson, 2015).…”

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“…These stimuli were distributed symmetrically around the medium duration in one block, instead of being tested with one block of shorter stimuli and then another block of longer stimuli. Since an internal reference is usually formed by a continuous dynamic updating process that integrates duration information from previous stimuli, the stable internal reference may correspond to the mean of the distribution of prior stimulus durations (Jazayeri and Shadlen, 2010; Mamassian and Landy, 2010; Shi et al, 2013; Bausenhart et al, 2014). A good illustration of this phenomenon is the well-known Vierordt effect, which shows a systematic regression toward the mean of the stimulus distribution (Lejeune and Wearden, 2009; Gu and Meck, 2011).…”

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Duration Aftereffect Depends on the Duration of Adaptation

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Yin

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Front. Psychol.

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It has been widely demonstrated that a prolonged adaptation to a relatively long or short stimulus leads to a robust repulsive duration aftereffect. However, little is known about the rapid adaptation to stimulus duration. In this study, we investigated whether the duration aftereffect could also be induced by short-term adaptation to stimuli of both sub- and supra-second durations. To control for the internal reference for duration judgment, participants were adapted to a stimulus of medium duration, and then tested with both longer and shorter stimuli. We found that the duration aftereffect was only observed after long-term adaptation to stimuli of both sub- and supra-second durations, which suggests that the exposure time to the adaptor is a fundamental factor in determining the duration aftereffect. Our findings offer further evidence of the duration aftereffect, which in this study was dissociated from the anchor effect and high-level aftereffects.

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Duration Aftereffect Depends on the Duration of Adaptation

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Yin

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“…These errors have generally been explained as a memory effect and have been reported under a variety of different experimental conditions144344.…”

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Visual tracking combined with hand-tracking improves time perception of moving stimuli

Carlini

French

2014

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A number of studies have shown that performing a secondary task while executing a time-judgment task impairs performance on the latter task. However, this turns out not to be the case for certain motor secondary tasks. We show that concomitant secondary motor tasks involving pointing, when performed during a time-judgment task, can actually improve our time-judgment abilities. We compared adult participants' performance in a time-of-movement paradigm with visual pursuit-only and with visual pursuit plus hand pursuit. Rather than interfering with their estimation of stimulus movement duration, the addition of hand pursuit significantly improved their judgment. In addition, we considered the effect of three different movement profiles and four different movement speeds for the moving stimulus. As predicted by Vierordt's law, time judgments of shorter stimuli are overestimated and longer stimuli underestimated. Finally, timing performances appear to improve when the moving target follows a “biological” velocity profile.

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“…Furthermore, a related and well-known effect referred to as “Vierordt’s law” suggests that these patterns are even seen in healthy subjects (Vierordt 1868), albeit to a lesser degree. Specifically, when subjects are asked to make duration judgments regarding multiple intervals across different trials, shorter and longer durations tend to be under and over-estimated, respectively (Bausenhart et al 2014; Mayer et al 2014). This pattern has been observed across a variety of timing tasks and sensory modalities (for discussion see Lejeune and Wearden 2009).…”

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Temporal averaging across multiple response options: insight into the mechanisms underlying integration

Corte

Matell

2015

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Rats trained on a dual-duration, dual-modality peak interval procedure (e.g., tone = 10 seconds / light = 20 seconds) often show unimodal response distributions with peaks that fall in between the anchor durations when both cues are presented as a simultaneous compound. Two hypotheses can explain this finding. According to the averaging hypothesis, rats integrate the anchor durations into an average during compound trials, with each duration being weighted by its respective reinforcement probability. According to the simultaneous temporal processing hypothesis, rats time both durations veridically and simultaneously during compound trials, and respond continuously across both durations, thereby producing a unimodal response distribution with a peak falling in between the anchor durations. In the present compounding experiment, rats were trained to associate a tone and light with two different durations (e.g., 5 and 20 seconds, respectively). However, in contrast to previous experiments, each cue was also associated with a distinct response requirement (e.g., left nosepoke for tone / right nosepoke for light). On the majority of compound trials, responding on a given nosepoke fell close to its respective duration, but was shifted in the direction of the other cue’s duration, suggesting rats timed an average of the two durations. However, more weight appeared to be given to the duration associated with the manipulandum on which the rat responded, rather than the duration associated with a higher reinforcement probability as predicted by the averaging hypothesis. Group differences were also observed, with rats trained to associate the tone and light with the short and long durations, respectively, being more likely to show these shifts than the counterbalanced modality-duration group (i.e., light-short / tone-long). This parallels group differences observed in past studies, and suggest that cue-weighting in response to stimulus compounds is influenced by the modality-duration relationship of the anchor cues. The current results suggest that temporal averaging is a more flexible process than previously theorized and provide novel insight in the mechanisms that affect cue-weighting.

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Temporal reproductions are influenced by an internal reference: Explaining the Vierordt effect

Cited by 76 publications

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Duration Aftereffect Depends on the Duration of Adaptation

Duration Aftereffect Depends on the Duration of Adaptation

Visual tracking combined with hand-tracking improves time perception of moving stimuli

Temporal averaging across multiple response options: insight into the mechanisms underlying integration

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