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The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli
Two experiments investigated the effects of stimulus repetition vs. stimulus novelty on perceived duration. In a reminder task, a standard and a comparison stimulus were presented consecutively in each trial, and the comparison was either a repetition of the standard or a different stimulus. Pseudow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26347682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01213 |
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author | Birngruber, Teresa Schröter, Hannes Ulrich, Rolf |
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description | Two experiments investigated the effects of stimulus repetition vs. stimulus novelty on perceived duration. In a reminder task, a standard and a comparison stimulus were presented consecutively in each trial, and the comparison was either a repetition of the standard or a different stimulus. Pseudowords (Experiment 1) or strings of consonants (Experiment 2) were used as stimuli and the inter-stimulus interval (ISI) between the standard and the comparison was either constant or variable. Participants were asked to judge whether the comparison was shorter or longer than the standard. In both experiments, we observed shorter judged durations for repeated than for novel comparisons whereas the manipulation of the ISI had no pronounced effects on duration judgments. The finding of shorter duration judgments for repeated as compared to novel nonwords replicates the results of a previous study (Matthews, 2011) which employed highly complex stimulus material. The present study shows that changes of simple, semantically meaningless stimuli are sufficient to result in a shorter perceived duration of repeated as compared to novel stimuli. |
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spelling | pubmed-45394532015-09-07 The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli Birngruber, Teresa Schröter, Hannes Ulrich, Rolf Front Psychol Psychology Two experiments investigated the effects of stimulus repetition vs. stimulus novelty on perceived duration. In a reminder task, a standard and a comparison stimulus were presented consecutively in each trial, and the comparison was either a repetition of the standard or a different stimulus. Pseudowords (Experiment 1) or strings of consonants (Experiment 2) were used as stimuli and the inter-stimulus interval (ISI) between the standard and the comparison was either constant or variable. Participants were asked to judge whether the comparison was shorter or longer than the standard. In both experiments, we observed shorter judged durations for repeated than for novel comparisons whereas the manipulation of the ISI had no pronounced effects on duration judgments. The finding of shorter duration judgments for repeated as compared to novel nonwords replicates the results of a previous study (Matthews, 2011) which employed highly complex stimulus material. The present study shows that changes of simple, semantically meaningless stimuli are sufficient to result in a shorter perceived duration of repeated as compared to novel stimuli. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4539453/ /pubmed/26347682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01213 Text en Copyright © 2015 Birngruber, Schröter and Ulrich. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Birngruber, Teresa Schröter, Hannes Ulrich, Rolf The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title | The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title_full | The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title_fullStr | The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title_full_unstemmed | The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title_short | The influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
title_sort | influence of stimulus repetition on duration judgments with simple stimuli |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26347682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01213 |
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