@article{ref1,
title="When long appears short: effects of auditory distraction on event-related potential correlates of time perception",
journal="European journal of neuroscience",
year="2021",
author="Getzmann, Stephan and Arnau, Stefan and Gajewski, Patrick D. and Wascher, Edmund",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Attentional models of time perception assume that the perceived duration of a stimulus depends on the extent to which attentional resources are allocated to its temporal information. Here, we studied the effects of auditory distraction on time perception, using a combined attentional-distraction duration-discrimination paradigm. Participants were confronted with a random sequence of long and short tone stimuli, most of which having a uniform (standard) pitch and only a few a different (deviant) pitch. As observed in previous studies, pitch-deviant tones impaired the discrimination of tone duration and triggered a sequence of event-related potentials (ERPs) reflecting a cycle of deviance detection, involuntary attentional distraction, and reorientation (MMN, P3a, RON). Contrasting ERPs of short and long tone durations revealed that long tones elicited a more pronounced fronto-central contingent negative variation (CNV) in the time interval after the expected offset of the short tone as well as a more prominent centro-parietal late positive complex (LPC). Relative to standard-pitch tones, deviant-pitch tones especially impaired the correct discrimination of long tones, which was associated with a reduction of the CNV and LPC. These results are interpreted within the theoretical framework of resource-based models of time perception, in which involuntary distraction due to a deviant event led to a withdrawal of attentional resources from the processing of time information.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0953-816X",
doi="10.1111/ejn.15553",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15553"
}