title: Timing processes are correlated when tasks share a salient event.
abstract: Event timing is manifested when participants make discrete movements such as repeatedly tapping a key. Emergent timing is manifested when participants make continuous movements such as repeatedly drawing a circle. Here we pursued the possibility that providing salient perceptual events to mark the completion of time intervals could allow circle drawing and tapping to share a common timing process. Individual differences in timing performance were correlated in the tapping and circle drawing tasks when a salient auditory event marked the completion of a cycle. The results suggest that the distinction between event timing and emergent timing does not inhere solely in kinematics but inheres as well in the way task goals are represented.
authors: Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. hnzelaz@purdue.edu
authors: Howard N
authors: HN
authors: Zelaznik
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Rosenbaum
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009043:Motor Activity; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D013998:Time Perception