PMID- 24746941
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141106
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1873-6297 (Electronic)
IS  - 0001-6918 (Linking)
VI  - 149
DP  - 2014 Jun
TI  - Hear it playing low and slow: how pitch level differentially influences time 
      perception.
PG  - 169-77
LID - S0001-6918(14)00085-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.03.010 [doi]
AB  - Variations in both pitch and time are important in conveying meaning through 
      speech and music, however, research is scant on perceptual interactions between 
      these two domains. Using an ordinal comparison procedure, we explored how 
      different pitch levels of flanker tones influenced the perceived duration of 
      empty interstimulus intervals (ISIs). Participants heard monotonic, isochronous 
      tone sequences (ISIs of 300, 600, or 1200 ms) composed of either one or five 
      standard ISIs flanked by 500 Hz tones, followed by a final interval (FI) flanked 
      by tones of either the same (500 Hz), higher (625 Hz), or lower (400 Hz) pitch. 
      The FI varied in duration around the standard ISI duration. Participants were 
      asked to determine if the FI was longer or shorter in duration than the preceding 
      intervals. We found that an increase in FI flanker tone pitch level led to the 
      underestimation of FI durations while a decrease in FI flanker tone pitch led to 
      the overestimation of FI durations. The magnitude of these pitch-level effects 
      decreased as the duration of the standard interval was increased, suggesting that 
      the effect was driven by differences in mode-switch latencies to start/stop 
      timing. Temporal context (One vs. Five Standard ISIs) did not have a consistent 
      effect on performance. We propose that the interaction between pitch and time may 
      have important consequences in understanding the ways in which meaning and 
      emotion are communicated.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Lake, Jessica I
AU  - Lake JI
AD  - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department 
      of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
FAU - LaBar, Kevin S
AU  - LaBar KS
AD  - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department 
      of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
FAU - Meck, Warren H
AU  - Meck WH
AD  - Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 
      USA; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. 
      Electronic address: meck@psych.duke.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
DEP - 20140417
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Acta Psychol (Amst)
JT  - Acta psychologica
JID - 0370366
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Attention/*physiology
MH  - Emotions/physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Music
MH  - Pitch Perception/*physiology
MH  - Time Perception/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attention
OT  - Clock speed
OT  - Emotion
OT  - Interval-based timing
OT  - Mode control
OT  - Timing and time perception
EDAT- 2014/04/22 06:00
MHDA- 2014/11/07 06:00
CRDT- 2014/04/22 06:00
PHST- 2013/01/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/03/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/03/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/04/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/04/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/11/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0001-6918(14)00085-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.03.010 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Psychol (Amst). 2014 Jun;149:169-77. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.03.010. Epub 
      2014 Apr 17.