Perceptual learning in temporal discrimination: asymmetric cross-modal transfer from audition to vision
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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.
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Auditory temporal discrimination training can transfer to visual tasks with lower precision demands, whereas the reverse pattern is not observed, presumably because the trained representations are insufficiently fine grained.
“Consistent with this view, auditory temporal discrimination training can transfer to visual tasks with lower precision demands, whereas the reverse pattern is not observed, presumably because the trained representations are insufficiently fine grained (Bratzke et al., 2012).”
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The asymmetry of working memory training transfer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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“Consistent with this view, auditory temporal discrimination training can transfer to visual tasks with lower precision demands, whereas the reverse pattern is not observed, presumably because the trained representations are insufficiently fine grained (Bratzke et al., 2012).”
- Authors
- Bratzke, D., Seifried, T., & Ulrich, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Bratzke, Daniel
- Venue
- Experimental Brain Research
- Published
- 2012-07-07
- Volume
- 221
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 205-210
- ISSN
- 0014-4819 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-1106
- OpenAlex
- W2031596616
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 4.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Experimental Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- perceptual learning, temporal discrimination, cross-modal transfer, ear dominance, auditory temporal processing, visual temporal processing, intermodal transfer, time perception
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Auditory Perception, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation, Time Factors, Time Perception, Transfer, Psychology, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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