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.
Carmeci
Floriana
F
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
Misuraca
Raffaella
R
Cardaci
Maurizio
M
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