On the discrepant results in synchrony judgment and temporal-order judgment tasks: A quantitative model

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 820-846

  García Pérez, Miguel A ^a   Alcalá Quintana, Rocío ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Audiovisual events; Experimental methods; Point of subjective simultaneity; Stimulus type; Synchrony judgment; Temporal order judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866749963     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0278-y     Document Type: Article

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