TY - JOUR
T1 - Different methods for reproducing time, different results
AU - Mioni, Giovanna
AU - Stablum, Franca
AU - McClintock, Shawn M.
AU - Grondin, Simon
N1 - Funding Information:
The information in this article and the original manuscript itself have never been published, either electronically or in print. The authors declare no conflict of interest affecting this article. Part of this study was presented at the TIMELY School on “Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications” in Corfu, Greece, February 4–8, 2013. The authors gratefully acknowledge Fela Boccato, Veronica Rossetti, and the students who cooperated in this study. We thank Thomas Sawyer, Åke Hellström, and Joseph Glicksohn for their comments on a previous version of the manuscript. This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health (Grant No. K23 MH087739), and in part by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - One of the most widely used tasks for investigating psychological time, time reproduction, requires from participants the reproduction of the duration of a previously presented stimulus. Although prior studies have investigated the effects of different cognitive processes on time reproduction performance, no studies have looked into the effects of different reproduction methods on these performances. In the present study, participants were randomly assigned to one of three reproduction methods, which included (a) just pressing at the end of the interval, (b) pressing to start and stop the interval, and (c) maintaining continuous pressing during the interval. The study revealed that the three reproduction methods were not equivalent, with the method involving keypresses to start and stop the reproduction showing the highest accuracy, and the method of continuous press generating less variability.
AB - One of the most widely used tasks for investigating psychological time, time reproduction, requires from participants the reproduction of the duration of a previously presented stimulus. Although prior studies have investigated the effects of different cognitive processes on time reproduction performance, no studies have looked into the effects of different reproduction methods on these performances. In the present study, participants were randomly assigned to one of three reproduction methods, which included (a) just pressing at the end of the interval, (b) pressing to start and stop the interval, and (c) maintaining continuous pressing during the interval. The study revealed that the three reproduction methods were not equivalent, with the method involving keypresses to start and stop the reproduction showing the highest accuracy, and the method of continuous press generating less variability.
KW - Method comparison
KW - Motor responses
KW - Time perception
KW - Time reproduction
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U2 - 10.3758/s13414-014-0625-3
DO - 10.3758/s13414-014-0625-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 24470257
AN - SCOPUS:84899455161
VL - 76
SP - 675
EP - 681
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
SN - 1943-3921
IS - 3
ER -