A study of temporal estimation from the perspective of the Mental Clock Model.
M. Cardaci's (2000) Mental Clock Model maintains that a task requiring a low mental workload is associated with an acceleration of perceived time, whereas a task requiring a high mental workload is associated with a deceleration. The authors examined the predictions of this model in a musical listening condition in which musical pieces were audible in several structural complexities. To measure the effects of musical complexity on time estimation, the authors used retrospective and prospective time-estimation paradigms. For the retrospective paradigm, the authors invited participants to listen to a musical piece and then estimate its duration. For the prospective paradigm, the authors invited participants to stop the musical reproduction after a certain interval of time. Results show that the variations of musical complexity yielded the empirical effects that the Mental Clock Model predicted for both paradigms.
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
Floriana
F
Carmeci
Raffaella
R
Misuraca
Maurizio
M
Cardaci
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009146:Music; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013998:Time Perception