Vibro-Tactile and Visual Asynchronies: Sensitivity and Consistency
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We investigated the consistency between tactually and visually designated empty time intervals. In a forced-choice discrimination task, participants judged whether the second of two intervals was shorter or longer than the first interval. Two pulses defined the intervals. The pulse was either a vibro-tactile burst presented to the fingertip, or a foveally presented white square. The comparisons were made for uni-modal and cross-modal intervals. We used four levels of standard interval durations in the range of 100–800 ms. The results showed that tactile empty intervals must be 8.5% shorter to be perceived as long as visual intervals. This cross-modal bias is larger for small intervals and decreases with increasing standard intervals. The Weber fractions (the threshold divided by the standard interval) are 20% and are constant over the standard intervals. This indicates that the Weber law holds for the range of interval lengths tested. Furthermore, the Weber fractions are consistent over uni-modal and cross-modal comparisons, which indicates that there is no additional noise involved in the cross-modal comparisons.
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- van Erp, J. B. F., & Werkhoven, P. J.
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- 2004-01
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- 33
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- Pages
- 103-111
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- 0301-0066 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4233
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- W2076551460
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- 47
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- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- time perception, time interval discrimination, visual perception, cross-modal consistency, Weber fraction, Weber's law
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Discrimination, Psychological, Humans, Male, Psychological Tests, Time Perception, Touch, Visual Perception
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