Subject: Re: interval perception From: Bruno Repp <repp@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:43:33 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000405050209080501040200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Jo: If you are considering using short intervals (< 500 ms), please look at the literature on the "time shrinking" illusion by Nakajima, ten Hoopen, and coworkers. There are about a dozen published papers on this particular topic. Best, Bruno On 4/28/11 12:12 PM, joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Dear list, > > students of mine plan to do a course project on the precission of > interval timing perception. > > The problem shall be addressed in two lines > > - interval bisection - how precise has a signal to be in the middle of > an interval to perceive the two resulting intervals as being equal. > Does this depent on the duration of the original interval, does it > depent on signal properties (tone pulse vs click, pulse frequency) > > - if three signals are given in a series, how precisely has the timing > of the third stimulus match the interval between the first two signals > in order to perceive the two resulting intervals as equal > > Could anybody please offer some hints to studies on these topics so we > can start an in depth literature search. > > Thanks very much > > Jo Ostwald > > > --------------------------------- > Prof. Dr. Jo Ostwald > Dept. Animal Physiology > University of Tuebingen > Auf der Morgenstelle 28 > D-72076 Tuebingen > Germany > phone +49 7071 29 72622 > fax +49 7071 29 2618 > email: joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx > http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/tierphys -- Bruno H. Repp Senior Research Scientist Music Perception and Action Haskins Laboratories 300 George Street New Haven, CT 06511-6624 E-mail: repp@xxxxxxxx Web page: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/repp.html --------------000405050209080501040200 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dear Jo:<br> <br> If you are considering using short intervals (< 500 ms), please look at the literature on the "time shrinking" illusion by Nakajima, ten Hoopen, and coworkers. There are about a dozen published papers on this particular topic.<br> <br> Best,<br> Bruno<br> <br> On 4/28/11 12:12 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx">joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:28095_1304011063_4DB9A137_28095_145_1_4DB9ADF9.5565.1A9DAFC@xxxxxxxx" type="cite"> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dear list,</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> students of mine plan to do a course project on the precission of interval timing perception.</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> The problem shall be addressed in two lines</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> - interval bisection - how precise has a signal to be in the middle of an interval to perceive the two resulting intervals as being equal. Does this depent on the duration of the original interval, does it depent on signal properties (tone pulse vs click, pulse frequency)</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> - if three signals are given in a series, how precisely has the timing of the third stimulus match the interval between the first two signals in order to perceive the two resulting intervals as equal </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Could anybody please offer some hints to studies on these topics so we can start an in depth literature search.</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Thanks very much</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Jo Ostwald</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> ---------------------------------</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Prof. Dr. Jo Ostwald </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dept. Animal Physiology </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> University of Tuebingen</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Auf der Morgenstelle 28 </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> D-72076 Tuebingen </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Germany </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> phone +49 7071 29 72622</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> fax +49 7071 29 2618</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx">joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx</a></span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/tierphys">http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/tierphys</a></span></font> </div> <div align="left"> </div> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Bruno H. Repp Senior Research Scientist Music Perception and Action Haskins Laboratories 300 George Street New Haven, CT 06511-6624 E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:repp@xxxxxxxx">repp@xxxxxxxx</a> Web page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/repp.html">http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/repp.html</a></pre> </body> </html> --------------000405050209080501040200--