| Modality effects in rhythm processing: Auditory encoding of visual rhythms is neither obligatory nor automatic. | |
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PMID: 20601718 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Modality effects in rhythm processing were examined using a tempo judgment paradigm, in which participants made speeding-up or slowing-down judgments for auditory and visual sequences. A key element of stimulus construction was that the expected pattern of tempo judgments for critical test stimuli depended on a beat-based encoding of the sequence. A model-based measure of degree of beat-based encoding computed from the pattern of tempo judgments revealed greater beat sensitivity for auditory rhythms than for visual rhythms. Visual rhythms with prior auditory exposure were more likely to show a pattern of tempo judgments similar to that for auditory rhythms than were visual rhythms without prior auditory exposure, but only for a beat period of 600 msec. Slowing down the rhythms eliminated the effect of prior auditory exposure on visual rhythm processing. Taken together, the findings in this study support the view that auditory rhythms demonstrate an advantage over visual rhythms in beat-based encoding and that the auditory encoding of visual rhythms can be facilitated with prior auditory exposure, but only within a limited temporal range. The broad conclusion from this research is that "hearing visual rhythms" is neither obligatory nor automatic, as was previously claimed by Guttman, Gilroy, and Blake (2005). |
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Authors:
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J Devin McAuley; Molly J Henry |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Attention, perception & psychophysics Volume: 72 ISSN: 1943-393X ISO Abbreviation: Atten Percept Psychophys Publication Date: 2010 Jul |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-05 Completed Date: 2010-11-02 Revised Date: 2011-02-24 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101495384 Medline TA: Atten Percept Psychophys Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1377-89 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. dmcauley@msu.edu |
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Acceleration Acoustic Stimulation Adolescent Adult Association Learning Attention Auditory Perception* Cues Female Humans Illusions* Judgment* Male Middle Aged Music* Pattern Recognition, Visual* Psychoacoustics Time Perception* Young Adult |
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