Re: interval perception (Roy Patterson )


Subject: Re: interval perception
From:    Roy Patterson  <rdp1@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:48:44 +0100
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<!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 text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> I would talk to Alan Wing at Birmingham Uni. He did a series of papers in the 1980s on the accuracy of the internal clock using finger tapping and a sophisticate lag-1 autocorrelation technique.<br> <br> I will copy this message to him to make the connection.<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:a.m.wing@xxxxxxxx">a.m.wing@xxxxxxxx</a><br> <a href="http://www.symon.bham.ac.uk/people/research/winga.shtml">http://www.symon.bham.ac.uk/people/research/winga.shtml</a><br> <br> Regards, Roy P<br> <br> On 28/04/2011 17:12, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx">joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxx</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:28095_1304011103_4DB9A15F_28095_213_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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> D-72076 Tuebingen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Germany&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </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&nbsp;&nbsp; +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"> &nbsp;</div> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Roy Patterson Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG phone +44 (1223) 333819 fax 333840 email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rdp1@xxxxxxxx">rdp1@xxxxxxxx</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/">http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.AcousticScale.org">http://www.AcousticScale.org</a></pre> </body> </html>


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