Temporal aspects of stimulus-driven attending in dynamic arrays.

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Auditory sequences of tones were used to examine a form of stimulus-driven attending that involves temporal expectancies and is influenced by stimulus rhythm. Three experiments examined the influence of sequence timing on comparative pitch judgments of two tones (standard, comparison) separated by interpolated pitches. In two of the experiments, interpolated tones were regularly timed, with onset times of comparison tones varied relative to this rhythm. Listeners were most accurate judging the pitch of rhythmically expected tones and least accurate with very unexpected ones. This effect persisted over time, but disappeared when the rhythm of interpolated tones was either missing or irregular.

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Author/s: Jones, Mari Riess (MR); Moynihan, Heather (H); MacKenzie, Noah (N); Puente, Jennifer (J);

Affiliation: Psychology Department, The Ohio State University, USA. jones.80(-atsign-)osu.edu

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jul; vol 13 (issue 4) : pp 313-9

Dates: Created 2002/07/24; Completed 2003/01/23; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12137133, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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