TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of temporal shapes of sound markers on the perception of interonset time intervals
AU - Hasuo, Emi
AU - Nakajima, Yoshitaka
AU - Osawa, Satoshi
AU - Fujishima, Hiroyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Gerard B. Remijn, Kazuo Ueda, and Tsuyoshi Kuroda for valuable comments and technical support. We are also grateful to Simon Grondin, Åke Hellström, Hans-Henning Schulze, and one anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments that helped improve this article. This research was supported by grants to Y.N. from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (14101001, 19103003, and 20653054) and a 21st Century COE program of Japanese government entitled “Design of Artificial Environments on the Basis of Human Sensibility.”
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - This study investigated how the temporal characteristics, particularly durations, of sounds affect the perceived duration of very short interonset time intervals (120-360 ms), which is important for rhythm perception in speech and music. In four experiments, the subjective duration of single time intervals marked by two sounds was measured utilizing the method of adjustment, while the markers' durations, amplitude difference (which accompanied the duration change), and sound energy distribution in time were varied. Lengthening the duration of the second marker in the range of 20-100 ms increased the subjective duration of the time interval in a stable manner. Lengthening the first marker tended to increase the subjective duration, but unstably; an opposite effect sometimes appeared for the shortest time interval of 120 ms. The effects of varying the amplitude and the sound energy distribution in time of either marker were very small in the present experimental conditions, thus proving the effects of marker durations per se.
AB - This study investigated how the temporal characteristics, particularly durations, of sounds affect the perceived duration of very short interonset time intervals (120-360 ms), which is important for rhythm perception in speech and music. In four experiments, the subjective duration of single time intervals marked by two sounds was measured utilizing the method of adjustment, while the markers' durations, amplitude difference (which accompanied the duration change), and sound energy distribution in time were varied. Lengthening the duration of the second marker in the range of 20-100 ms increased the subjective duration of the time interval in a stable manner. Lengthening the first marker tended to increase the subjective duration, but unstably; an opposite effect sometimes appeared for the shortest time interval of 120 ms. The effects of varying the amplitude and the sound energy distribution in time of either marker were very small in the present experimental conditions, thus proving the effects of marker durations per se.
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U2 - 10.3758/s13414-011-0236-1
DO - 10.3758/s13414-011-0236-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 22076681
AN - SCOPUS:84857589495
SN - 1943-3921
VL - 74
SP - 430
EP - 445
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
IS - 2
ER -