Temporal aspects of stimulus-driven attending in dynamic arrays.
Auditory sequences of tones were used to examine a form of stimulus-driven attending that involves temporal expectancies and is influenced by stimulus rhythm. Three experiments examined the influence of sequence timing on comparative pitch judgments of two tones (standard, comparison) separated by interpolated pitches. In two of the experiments, interpolated tones were regularly timed, with onset times of comparison tones varied relative to this rhythm. Listeners were most accurate judging the pitch of rhythmically expected tones and least accurate with very unexpected ones. This effect persisted over time, but disappeared when the rhythm of interpolated tones was either missing or irregular.
Jones
Mari Riess
MR
Psychology Department, The Ohio State University, USA. jones.80@osu.edu
Moynihan
Heather
H
MacKenzie
Noah
N
Puente
Jennifer
J
D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D010507:Periodicity; D011897:Random Allocation; D013998:Time Perception