Allocation of attention and practice in the production of time intervals.
During a baseline trial, participants attempted to produce a 60-sec. interval while working at either a simple tracing task or others that involved mirror-tracing. Subsequent practice with the assigned task, expected to reduce the need for allocation of attention to mirror-tracing for those groups, produced predictable effects on a second trial of duration producing. Those performing mirror-tracing reduced production times on the post-practice trial, while those performing simple tracing showed no change after practice. These results are interpreted within the attentional allocation model of estimation of prospective duration.
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Psychology Department, North Central College, Naperville, IL 60566-7063, USA. tfs@noctrl.edu
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011897:Random Allocation; D013997:Time Factors