Advantage of audition over vision in a perceptual timing task but not in a sensorimotor timing task
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Advantage of audition over vision in a perceptual timing task but not in a sensorimotor timing task Li Gu1,2 · Yingyu Huang2 · Xiang Wu2 Received: 13 February 2019 / Accepted: 24 May 2019 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract Timing is essential for various behaviors and relative to vision, audition is considered to be specialized for temporal processing. The present study conducted a sensorimotor timing task that required tapping in synchrony with a temporally regular sequence and a perceptual timing task that required detecting a timing deviation among a temporally regular sequence. The sequence was composed of auditory tones, visual flashes, or a visual bouncing ball. In the sensorimotor task, sensorimotor timing performance (synchronization stability) of the bouncing ball was much greater than that of flashes and was comparable to that of tones. In the perceptual task, where perceptual timing performance of the bouncing ball was greater than that of flashes, it was poorer than that of tones. These results suggest the facilitation of both perceptual and sensorimotor processing of temporal information by the bouncing ball. Given such facilitation of temporal processing, however, audition is still superior over vision in perceptual detection of timing.
Introduction Precise processing of temporal information in the range of tens to hundreds of milliseconds (ms) is crucial for various behaviors, such as perceiving, moving, speaking, and appreciating music (Ivry, 1996; Mauk and Buonomano, 2004; Eagleman et al., 2005). While temporal processing is not restricted in a specific modality, audition has long been considered to be specialized for temporal processing, relative to the visual advantage in spatial processing (Chen & Vroomen, 2013; Grahn, Henry and McAuley, 2011; Guttman, Gilroy and Blake, 2005; Repp & Penel, 2002). Li Gu and Yingyu Huang contributed equally to this work. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01204-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Xiang Wu [email protected] 1
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, 132 Waihuan East Road, Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong, China
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Recently, evidence that strongly challenges the auditory advantage in temporal processing was found in sensorimotor studies using a beat synchronization task (Gan, Huang, Zhou, Qian and Wu, 2015; Hove, Spivey and Krumhansl, 2010; Hove, Fairhurst, Kotz and Keller, 2013; Hove, Iversen, Zhang and Repp, 2013; Iversen, Patel, Nicodemus and Emmorey, 2015). The beat refers to a perceived regular pulse in time, which enables time intervals to be organized and encoded according to expected points in time, rather than processed as unrelated intervals, and imp
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