Opposite Distortions in Interval Timing Perception for Visual and Auditory Stimuli with Temporal Modulations.

摘要: When an object is presented visually and moves or flickers, the perception of its duration tends to be overestimated. Such overestimation called time dilation. Perceived can also distorted when a stimulus aurally as auditory flutter, but mechanisms their relationship visual processing remains unclear. In present study, we measured interval timing while modulating temporal characteristics stimuli, investigated whether times objects shared common mechanism. these experiments, participants compared durations flickering fluttering stimuli standard which were continuously. for flutters underestimated, perceived flickers simultaneously, distortion effects cancelled out. with constantly stimulus, was affected by flutters. These results indicate that governed independent processing, there are some interactions between two systems.