The effect of feedback on timing in children and adults: the temporal generalization task.
Children aged 5 and 8 years and adults were tested on a temporal generalization task with a standard duration of 600 ms in a condition with or without corrective feedback. In all conditions, the participants produced orderly temporal generalization gradients, although these were flatter in the younger children, especially in the no-feedback condition. Nevertheless, the results show that the feedback increased the steepness of the generalization gradient in all age groups and in a greater extent in the younger children. Our clock-based model suggested that feedback reduces the variability of the memory representation of the standard duration but also the probability of random responses in the 5-year-olds.
Droit-Volet
Sylvie
S
Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France. droit@srvpsy.univ-bpclermont.fr
Izaute
Marie
M
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time