title: Perceptual learning in temporal discrimination: asymmetric cross-modal transfer from audition to vision.
abstract: This study assessed possible cross-modal transfer effects of training in a temporal discrimination task from vision to audition as well as from audition to vision. We employed a pretest-training-post-test design including a control group that performed only the pretest and the post-test. Trained participants showed better discrimination performance with their trained interval than the control group. This training effect transferred to the other modality only for those participants who had been trained with auditory stimuli. The present study thus demonstrates for the first time that training on temporal discrimination within the auditory modality can transfer to the visual modality but not vice versa. This finding represents a novel illustration of auditory dominance in temporal processing and is consistent with the notion that time is primarily encoded in the auditory system.
authors: Cognition and Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Schleichstrasse 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. daniel.bratzke@uni-tuebingen.de
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Bratzke
authors: Tanja
authors: T
authors: Seifried
authors: Rolf
authors: R
authors: Ulrich
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013997:Time Factors; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014163:Transfer, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult