Scalar timing in temporal generalization in children with short and long stimulus durations.

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This experiment investigated temporal generalization performance in children aged 3, 5, and 8 years by using auditory stimulus durations where the standard was 0.4 s or 4.0 s, and non-standard stimuli were spaced linearly around the standard. At all ages, generalization gradients superimposed well when plotted on the same relative scale, indicating conformity to scalar timing. Whatever the standard duration used, the principal developmental changes were the increasing steepness of the generalization gradient with increasing age and a shift from symmetrical gradients, in the 3- and 5-year-olds, to adult-like asymmetrical gradients in the 8-year-olds.

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Author/s: Droit-Volet, Sylvie (S);

Affiliation: Laboratoire de Psycholoie Sociale de la Cognition, CNRS (UMR 6024), Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France. droit(-atsign-)srvpsy.univ-bpclermont.fr

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology (Q J Exp Psychol A), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Oct; vol 55 (issue 4) : pp 1193-209

Dates: Created 2002/11/07; Completed 2002/11/26; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12420992, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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