Modality and intermittency effects on time estimation

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 270-273

  Ortega, L ^a,b   Lopez, F ^a   Church, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Humans; Modality; Temporal bisection; Time estimation; Visual flicker

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VISUAL CUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64949091703     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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