Hear it playing low and slow: How pitch level differentially influences time perception

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-177

  Lake, Jessica I ^a   LaBar, Kevin S ^a   Meck, Warren H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Clock speed; Emotion; Interval based timing; Mode control; Timing and time perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLOCK SPEED; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERVAL-BASED TIMING; MALE; MODE CONTROL; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME PERCEPTION; TIMING AND TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CLOCK SPEED; EMOTION; INTERVAL-BASED TIMING; MODE CONTROL; TIMING AND TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900422852     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (95)

1. Agostino P.V., Peryer G., Meck W.H. How music fills our emotions and helps us keep time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2008, 31:575-576.
2. Allman M.J., Meck W.H. Pathophysiological distortions in time perception and timed performance. Brain 2012, 135:656-677.
3. Allman M.J., Teki S., Griffiths T.D., Meck W.H. Properties of the internal clock: First- and second-order principles of subjective time. Annual Review of Psychology 2014, 65:743-771.
4. Andrade P.E., Bhattacharya J. Brain tuned to music. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2003, 96:284-287.
5. Arvanti A. Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetics 2009, 66:46-63.
6. Bach D.R., Neuhoff J.G., Perrig W., Seifritz E. Looming sounds as warning signals: The function of motion cues. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2009, 74:28-33.
7. Bays R.B., Foley M.A., Zabrucky K.M. Timing does matter: Examining imagery's impact on the temporal origins of false beliefs. Acta Psychologica 2013, 142:30-37.
8. Boltz M.G. Tempo discrimination of musical patterns: Effects due to pitch and rhythmic structure. Perception & Psychophysics 1998, 60:1357-1373.
9. Brigner W.L. Perceived duration as a function of pitch. Perceptual and Motor Skills 1988, 67:301-302.
10. Buhusi C.V., Meck W.H. What makes us tick? Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing. Nature Review Neuroscience 2005, 6:755-765.
11. Buhusi C.V., Meck W.H. Interval timing with gaps and distracters: Evaluation of the ambiguity, switch, and time-sharing hypotheses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 2006, 32:329-338.
12. Buhusi C.V., Meck W.H. Relative time sharing: New findings and an extension of the resource allocation model of temporal processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 2009, 364:1875-1885.
13. Buhusi C.V., Sasaki A., Meck W.H. Temporal integration as a function of signal/gap intensity in rats (Rattus norvegicus) and pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Psychology 2002, 116:381-390.
14. Cohen J., Hansel C.E., Sylvester J.D. Interdependence of temporal and auditory judgments. Nature 1954, 174:642-644.
15. Conway L.G. Social contagion of time perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2004, 40:113-120.
16. Cordes S., Meck W.H. Ordinal judgments in the rat: An understanding of 'longer' and 'shorter' for supra-second, but not sub-second, durations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2014, (in press). 10.1037/a0032439.
17. Coull J.T., Cheng R.K., Meck W.H. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates of timing. Neuropsychopharmacology 2011, 36:3-25.
18. Cutler A., Dahan D., van Donselaar W. Prosody in the comprehension of spoken language: A literature review. Language and Speech 1997, 40:141-201.
19. Di Pietro M., Laganaro M., Leemann B., Schnider A. Receptive amusia: Temporal auditory processing deficit in a professional musician following a left temporo-parietal lesion. Neuropsychologia 2004, 42:868-877.
20. Drake C., Botte M.C. Tempo sensitivity in auditory sequences: Evidence for a multiple-look model. Perception & Psychophysics 1993, 54:277-286.
21. Droit-Volet S., Meck W.H., Penney T.B. Sensory modality and time perception in children and adults. Behavioural Processes 2007, 74:244-250.
22. Fortin C., Fairhurst S., Malapani C., Morin C., Towey J., Meck W.H. Expectancy in humans in multisecond peak-interval timing with gaps. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2009, 71:789-802.
23. Ghazanfar A.A., Maier J.X. Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) hear rising frequency sounds as looming. Behavioral Neuroscience 2009, 123:822-827.
24. Ghazanfar A.A., Neuhoff J.G., Logothetis N.K. Auditory looming perception in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002, 99:15755-15757.
25. Gibbon J., Church R.M. Sources of variance in an information processing theory of timing. Animal cognition 1984, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J. H.L. Roitblat, T.G. Bever, H.S. Terrace (Eds.).
26. Gibbon J., Church R.M., Meck W.H. Scalar timing in memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1984, 423:52-77.
27. Griffiths T. Cortical mechanisms for pitch representation. Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32:13333-13334.
28. Grommet E.K., Droit-Volet S., Gil S., Hemmes N.S., Baker A.H., Brown B.L. Time estimation of fear cues in human observers. Behavioural Processes 2011, 86:88-93.
29. Grondin S. Duration discrimination of empty and filled intervals marked by auditory and visual signals. Perception & Psychophysics 1993, 54:383-394.
30. Grondin S., Ivry R.B., Franz E., Perreault L., Metthe L. Markers' influence on the duration discrimination of intermodal intervals. Perception & Psychophysics 1996, 58:424-433.
31. Gu, B. M., & Meck, W. H. (2011). New perspectives on Vierordt's law: Memory-mixing in ordinal temporal comparison tasks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6789 LNAI, 67-78.
32. Han S., Sundararajan J., Bowling D.L., Lake J., Purves D. Co-variation of tonality in the music and speech of different cultures. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(5):e20160.
33. Hasuo E., Nakajima Y., Osawa S., Fujishima H. Effects of temporal shapes of sound markers on the perception of interonset time intervals. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2012, 74:430-445.
34. Henry M.J., McAuley J.D. Evaluation of an imputed pitch velocity model of the auditory kappa effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2009, 35:551-564.
35. Hinton S.C., Meck W.H. How time flies: Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing. Advances in Psychology 1997, 120:409-457.
36. Hyde K.L., Peretz I. Brains that are out of tune but in time. Psychological Science 2004, 15:356-360.
37. Jerde T.A., Childs S.K., Handy S.T., Nagode J.C., Pardo J.V. Dissociable systems of working memory for rhythm and melody. Neuroimage 2011, 57:1572-1579.
38. Juslin P.N. Cue utilization in communication of emotion in music performance: Relating performance to perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2000, 26:1797-1813.
39. Juslin P.N. From mimesis to catharsis: Expression, perception, and induction of emotion in music. Musical communication 2005, Oxford University Press, Oxford. D. Miell, R. MacDonald, D.J. Hargreaves (Eds.).
40. Juslin P.N., Laukka P. Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: Different channels, same code?. Psychological Bulletin 2003, 129:770-814.
41. Juslin P.N., Västfjäll D. Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2008, 31:559-621.
42. Krumhansl C.L. Rhythm and pitch in music cognition. Psychological Bulletin 2000, 126:159-179.
43. Kung S.-J., Chen J.L., Zatorre R.J., Penhune V.B. Interacting cortical and basal ganglia networks underlying finding and tapping to the musical beat. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2013, 25:401-420.
44. Lake J.I., Meck W.H. Differential effects of amphetamine and haloperidol on temporal reproduction: Dopaminergic regulation of attention and clock speed. Neuropsychologia 2013, 51:284-292.
45. Lebrun-Guillaud G., Tillmann B. Influence of a tone's tonal function on temporal change detection. Perception & Psychophysics 2007, 69:1450-1459.
46. Lejeune H. Switching or gating? The attentional challenge in cognitive models of psychological time. Behavioural Processes 1998, 44:127-145.
47. Lewis P.A., Meck W.H. Time and the sleeping brain. The Psychologist 2012, 25:594-597.
48. Lewis P.A., Miall R.C. Brain activation patterns during measurement of sub- and supra-second intervals. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41:1583-1592.
49. Lui M.A., Penney T.B., Schirmer A. Emotion effects on timing: Attention versus pacemaker accounts. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(7):e21829. 10.1371/journal.pone.0021829.
50. Lustig C., Meck W.H. Paying attention to time as one gets older. Psychological Science 2001, 12:478-484.
51. Lustig C., Meck W.H. Modality differences in timing and temporal memory throughout the lifespan. Brain and Cognition 2011, 77:298-303.
52. Matell M.S., Meck W.H. Neuropsychological mechanisms of interval timing behaviour. BioEssays 2000, 22:94-103.
53. Matell M.S., Meck W.H. Cortico-striatal circuits and interval timing: Coincidence detection of oscillatory processes. Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 21:139-170.
54. Matthews W.J. How does sequence structure affect the judgment of time? Exploring a weighted sum of segments model. Cognitive Psychology 2013, 66:259-282.
55. McAuley J.D., Jones M.R. Modeling effects of rhythmic context on perceived duration: A comparison of interval and entrainment approaches to short-interval timing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2003, 29:1102-1125.
56. McBeath M.K., Neuhoff J.G. The Doppler effect is not what you think it is: Dramatic pitch change due to dynamic intensity change. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 2002, 9:306-313.
57. Meck W.H. Selective adjustment of the speed of internal clock and memory processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 1983, 9:171-201.
58. Meck W.H. Attentional bias between modalities: Effect on the internal clock, memory, and decision stages used in animal time discrimination. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1984, 423:528-541.
59. 2 receptor predicts neuroleptic potency in decreasing the speed of an internal clock. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 1986, 25:1185-1189.
60. Meck W.H. Neuropharmacology of timing and time perception. Cognitive Brain Research 1996, 3:227-242.
61. Meck W.H. Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing 2003, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
62. Meck W.H. Neuropsychology of timing and time perception. Brain and Cognition 2005, 58:1-8.
63. Meck W.H. Frontal cortex lesions eliminate the clock speed effect of dopaminergic drugs on interval timing. Brain Research 2006, 1108:157-167.
64. Meck W.H., Benson A.M. Disserting the brain's internal clock: How frontal-striatal circuitry keeps time and shifts attention. Brain and Cognition 2002, 48:195-211.
65. Meck W.H., Church R.M. A mode control model of counting and timing processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 1983, 9:320-334.
66. Meck W.H., Church R.M., Gibbon J. Temporal integration in duration and number discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 1985, 11:591-597.
67. Meck W.H., Doyère V., Gruart A. Interval timing and time-based decision making. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2012, 6:13.
68. Meck W.H., Penney T.B., Pouthas V. Cortico-striatal representation of time in animals and humans. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2008, 18:145-152.
69. Melgire M., Ragot R., Samson S., Penney T.B., Meck W.H., Pouthas V. Auditory/visual duration bisection in patients with left or right medial-temporal lobe resection. Brain and Cognition 2005, 58:119-124.
70. Merchant H., Harrington D.L., Meck W.H. Neural basis of the perception and estimation of time. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2013, 36:313-336.
71. Murray I.R., Arnott J.L. Toward the simulation of emotion in synthetic speech: A review of the literature on human vocal emotion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1993, 93:1097-1108.
72. Neuhoff J.G., McBeath M.K. The Doppler illusion: The influence of dynamic intensity change on perceived pitch. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1996, 22:970-985.
73. Neuhoff J.G., McBeath M.K., Wanzie W.C. Dynamic frequency change influences loudness perception: A central, analytic process. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1999, 25:1050-1059.
74. Ono F., Kitazawa S. The effect of marker size on the perception of an empty interval. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 2009, 16:182-189.
75. Pashler H. Perception and production of brief durations: Beat-based versus interval-based timing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2001, 27:485-493.
76. Patel A.D., Iversen J.R., Rosenberg J.C. Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: The case of British English and French. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2006, 119:3034-3047.
77. Penney T.B., Allan L.G., Meck W.H., Gibbon J. Memory mixing in duration bisection. Timing of behavior: Neural, psychological, and computational perspectives 1998, 165-193. MIT Press, Cambridge, M.A. D.A. Rosenbaum, C.E. Collyer (Eds.).
78. Penney T.B., Gibbon J., Meck W.H. Differential effects of auditory and visual signals on clock speed and temporal memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2000, 26:1770-1787.
79. Penney T.B., Holder M.D., Meck W.H. Clonidine-induced antagonism of norepinephrine modulates the attentional processes involved in peak-interval timing. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 1996, 4:82-92.
80. Pfeuty M., Peretz I. Abnormal pitch-time interference in congenital amusia: Evidence from an implicit test. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2010, 72:763-774.
81. Rammsayer T., Ulrich R. Elaborative rehearsal of nontemporal information interferes with temporal processing of durations in the range of seconds but not milliseconds. Acta Psychologica 2011, 137:127-133.
82. Samson S., Zatorre R.J., Ramsay J.O. Deficits of musical timbre perception after unilateral temporal-lobe lesion revealed with multidimensional scaling. Brain 2002, 125:511-523.
83. Schellenberg E.G., Krysciak A.M., Campbell R.J. Perceiving emotion in melody: Interactive effects of pitch and rhythm. Music Perception 2000, 18:155-171.
84. Scherer K.R., Johnstone T., Klasmeyer G. Vocal expression of emotion. Handbook of affective sciences 2003, 433-456. Oxford University Press, Oxford. R.J. Davidson, K.R. Scherer, H.H. Goldsmith (Eds.).
85. Schiff W., Caviness J.A., Gibson J.J. Persistent fear responses in rhesus monkeys to the optical stimulus of "looming". Science 1962, 136:982-983.
86. Schirmer A. Timing speech: A review of lesion and neuroimaging findings. Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 21:269-287.
87. Schirmer A., Kotz S.A. Beyond the right hemisphere: Brain mechanisms mediating vocal emotional processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2006, 10:24-30.
88. Seifritz E., Neuhoff J.G., Bilecen D., Scheffler K., Mustovic H., Schachinger H., et al. Neural processing of auditory looming in the human brain. Current Biology 2002, 12:2147-2151.
89. Stevens S.S. The attributes of tones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1934, 20:457-459.
90. Tse P.U., Intriligator J., Rivest J., Cavanagh P. Attention and the subjective expansion of time. Perception & Psychophysics 2004, 66:1171-1189.
91. Tse C.Y., Penney T.B. Preattentive timing of empty intervals is from marker offset to onset. Psychophysiology 2006, 43:172-179.
92. van Rijn H., Gu B.-M., Meck W.H. Dedicated clock/timing-circuit theories of interval timing. Neurobiology of interval timing 2014, Springer-Verlag, New York NY, (in press). H. Merchant, V. de Lafuente (Eds.).
93. van Wassenhove V., Buonomano D.V., Shimojo S., Shams L. Distortions of subjective time perception within and across senses. PLoS ONE 2008, 3:e1437.
94. Webster G.D., Weir C.G. Emotional responses to music: Interactive effects of mode, texture, and tempo. Motivation and Emotion 2005, 29:19-39.
95. Zatorre R.J., Belin P., Penhune V.B. Structure and function of auditory cortex: Music and speech. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2002, 6:37-46.