Stimulus spacing effects in duration perception are larger for auditory stimuli: Data and a model

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-104

  Penney, Trevor B ^a   Brown, Gordon D A ^b   Wong, Jonathan K L ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Duration bisection; Interval timing; Stimulus spacing

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894246766     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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