Temporal Interval Discrimination Thresholds Depend on Perceived Synchrony for Audio-Visual Stimulus Pairs

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1254-1263

  van Eijk, Rob L J ^a   Kohlrausch, Armin ^a,b   Juola, James F ^a,c   van de Par, Steven ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical perception; synchrony judgments; temporal interval discriminations; temporal order judgments

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 69049097078     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014254     Document Type: Article

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