Inducing Cortical Plasticity to Manipulate and Consolidate Subjective Time Interval Production

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoyasu Honma ◽  
Shoko Saito ◽  
Takeshi Atsumi ◽  
Shin‐ichi Tokushige ◽  
Satomi Inomata‐Terada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Plasticity ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Interval Production

scholarly journals Correction and Validation of Time-Critical Behavioral Measurements over the Internet in the Stage Twin Cohort with More Than 7000 Participants

Psych ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-152
Author(s):  
Guy Madison
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Data Quality Control ◽  
Twin Design ◽  
Association Reaction ◽  
Time Critical ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Interval Production

Behavioral data are increasingly collected over the Internet. This is particularly useful when participants’ own computers can be used as they are, without any modification that relies on their technical skills. However, the temporal accuracy in these settings is generally poor, unknown, and varies substantially across different hard- and software components. This makes it dubious to administer time-critical behavioral tests such as implicit association, reaction time, or various forms of temporal judgment/perception and production. Here, we describe the online collection and subsequent data quality control and adjustment of reaction time and time interval production data from 7127 twins sourced from the Swedish Twin Registry. The purposes are to (1) validate the data that are already and will continue to be reported in forthcoming publications (due to their utility, such as the large sample size and the twin design) and to (2) provide examples of how one might engage in post-hoc analyses of such data, and (3) explore how one might control for systematic influences from specific components in the functional chain. These possible influences include the type and version of the operating system, browser, and multimedia plug-in type

The Effect of Choice and Announcement Duration on the Estimation of Telephone Hold Time

2009 ◽  
pp. 2404-2423
Author(s):  
Philip Kortum ◽  
Randolph G. Bias ◽  
Benjamin A. Knott ◽  
Robert G. Bushey
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Hold Time ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Time Estimates ◽  
Subjective Assessments

If a caller is placed on hold when they call a business, about half will hang up before the call is answered. Of those that hang up, only half of those will call back (Staino, 1994). Optimizing the on-hold experience has the potential to reduce hang-ups and make being put on hold more palatable to the caller. The current study assessed the influence of the opportunity to make a music choice and the length of pre-music announcement duration on perceived on-hold durations and customer satisfaction. Subjective assessments of on-hold times were significantly shorter with longer announcements, but satisfaction did not change. The chance to choose music improved satisfaction, but did not significantly reduce subjective time estimates. To test if multiple withinsubject trials might have led to prospective time judgments, a between-subjects design replication was conducted, with each participant estimating only one time interval. A similar pattern of results was obtained.

Making Sense of Timing and Attention: Modality Effect in Timing with a Break

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Viau-Quesnel ◽  
Rémi Gaudreault ◽  
Andrée-Anne Ouellet ◽  
Claudette Fortin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Modality Effect ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Auditory Modality ◽  
Expectancy Effects ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Interval Production

Tones are perceived longer than visual stimuli of same durations. One interpretation of this modality effect is that auditory stimuli capture attention more easily than visual stimuli, resulting in more efficient temporal processing. During a time interval production, expecting a break signal lengthens the produced interval, an effect explained by attention sharing between timing and monitoring for the signal occurrence. In the present study, participants produced a brief time interval defined by a visual or an auditory stimulus and in most trials, there was a break in stimulus presentation. The effect of break expectancy was significantly stronger when the timing stimulus was presented in the visual than in the auditory modality, an interaction supporting attentional interpretations of the modality and expectancy effects. We conclude that auditory stimuli orient attention to time more readily than visual stimuli in a context of attention sharing, which reduces the distracting effect of break expectancy.

Action–Sound Coincidences Suppress Evoked Responses of the Human Auditory Cortex in EEG and MEG

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1919-1931 ◽  
Author(s):  
János Horváth ◽  
Burkhard Maess ◽  
Pamela Baess ◽  
Annamária Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Forward Model ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Auditory Event ◽  
Suppression Effect ◽  
Internal Forward Model ◽  
Pure Tones ◽  
Interval Production ◽  
Action Stimulus

The N1 auditory ERP and its magnetic counterpart (N1[m]) are suppressed when elicited by self-induced sounds. Because the N1(m) is a correlate of auditory event detection, this N1 suppression effect is generally interpreted as a reflection of the workings of an internal forward model: The forward model captures the contingency (causal relationship) between the action and the sound, and this is used to cancel the predictable sensory reafference when the action is initiated. In this study, we demonstrated in three experiments using a novel coincidence paradigm that actual contingency between actions and sounds is not a necessary condition for N1 suppression. Participants performed time interval production tasks: They pressed a key to set the boundaries of time intervals. Concurrently, but independently of keypresses, a sequence of pure tones with random onset-to-onset intervals was presented. Tones coinciding with keypresses elicited suppressed N1(m) and P2(m), suggesting that action–stimulus contiguity (temporal proximity) is sufficient to suppress sensory processing related to the detection of auditory events.

Neuroticism is correlated with drift in serial time interval production

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea J. Forsman ◽  
Guy Madison ◽  
Fredrik Ullén
Keyword(s):  
Time Interval ◽  
Interval Production

scholarly journals Rapid cortical plasticity induced by active associative learning of novel words in human adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Razorenova ◽  
Boris V. Chernyshev ◽  
Anastasia Yu. Nikolaeva ◽  
Anna V. Butorina ◽  
Andrey O. Prokofyev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Plasticity ◽  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Premotor Cortex ◽  
Cortical Activity ◽  
Response Amplitude ◽  
Spatiotemporal Pattern ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Repetition Suppression ◽  
Uniqueness Point ◽  
Hands And Feet

AbstractHuman speech requires that new words are routinely memorized, yet neurocognitive mechanisms of such acquisition of memory remain highly debatable. Major controversy concerns the question whether cortical plasticity related to word learning occurs in neocortical speech-related areas immediately after learning, or neocortical plasticity emerges only on the second day after a prolonged time required for consolidation after learning. The functional spatiotemporal pattern of cortical activity related to such learning also remains largely unknown. In order to address these questions, we examined magnetoencephalographic responses elicited in the cerebral cortex by passive presentations of eight novel pseudowords before and immediately after an operant conditioning task. This associative procedure forced participants to perform an active search for unique meaning of four pseudowords that referred to movements of left and right hands and feet. The other four pseudowords did not require any movement and thus were not associated with any meaning. Familiarization with novel pseudowords led to a bilateral repetition suppression of cortical responses to them; the effect started before or around the uniqueness point and lasted for more than 500 ms. After learning, response amplitude to pseudowords that acquired meaning was greater compared with response amplitude to pseudowords that were not assigned meaning; the effect was significant within 144–362 ms after the uniqueness point, and it was found only in the left hemisphere. Within this time interval, a learning-related selective response initially emerged in cortical areas surrounding the Sylvian fissure: anterior superior temporal sulcus, ventral premotor cortex, the anterior part of intraparietal sulcus and insula. Later within this interval, activation additionally spread to more anterior higher-tier brain regions, and reached the left temporal pole and the triangular part of the left inferior frontal gyrus extending to its orbital part. Altogether, current findings evidence rapid plastic changes in cortical representations of meaningful auditory word-forms occurring almost immediately after learning. Additionally, our results suggest that familiarization resulting from stimulus repetition and semantic acquisition resulting from an active learning procedure have separable effects on cortical activity.

Time-related processes in time-based prospective memory and in time-interval production

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc-Antoine Labelle ◽  
Peter Graf ◽  
Simon Grondin ◽  
Laurent Gagné-Roy
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Interval Production

Impaired predictive timing with spared time interval production in individual with schizophrenia

2012 ◽  
Vol 197 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Turgeon ◽  
Anne Giersch ◽  
Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell ◽  
Alan M. Wing
Keyword(s):  
Time Interval ◽  
Interval Production

Structured Time and Subjective Acceleration of Time

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Time Perception ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Subjective Duration ◽  
Subjective Change ◽  
Change Perceptions ◽  
The Individual

The present paper gives some evidence that differences in subjective time acceleration with aging are correlated with differences in the extent to which time is structured for the individual, as opposed to free time. Lemlich's 1975 hypothesis relating this speeding up of time to the subjective duration of the time interval was only partially supported by the evidence. Subjective change perceptions of happiness were not correlated significantly with this phenomenon of time perception.

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