TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Multiple-look effects on temporal discrimination within sound sequences JO - Attention, perception and psychophysics A1 - Ten Hoopen, Gert A1 - Van Den Berg, Stéphanie A1 - Memelink, Jiska A1 - Bocanegra, Bruno A1 - Boon, Roel SP - 2249 EP - 2269 VL - 73 IS - 7 N2 - The multiple-look notion holds that the difference limen (DL) decreases with multiple observations. We investigated this notion for temporal discrimination in isochronous sound sequences. In Experiment 1, we established a multiple-look effect when sequences comprised nine standard time intervals (S) followed by an increasing number of comparison time intervals (C), but no multiple-look effect when one trailing C interval was preceded by an increasing number of S intervals. In Experiment 2, we extended the design. There were four sequential conditions: (a) 9 leading S intervals followed by 1, 2, …, or 9 C-intervals; (b) 9 leading C intervals followed by 1, 2, …, or 9 S intervals; (c) 9 trailing C-intervals preceded by 1, 2, …, or 9 S-intervals; and (d) 9 trailing S-intervals preceded by 1, 2, …, or 9 C-intervals. Both the interval accretions before and after the tempo change caused multiple-look effects, irrespective of the time order of S and C. Complete deconfounding of the number of intervals before and after the tempo change was accomplished in Experiment 3. The multiple-look effect of interval accretion before the tempo change was twice as big as that after the tempo change. The diminishing returns relation between the DL and interval accretion could be described well by a reciprocal function.
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LA - en SN - 1943-3921 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0171-1 ID - ref1 ER -