Human performance on the temporal bisection task

The perception and processing of temporal information are tasks the brain must continuously perform. These include measuring the duration of stimuli, storing duration information in memory, recalling such memories, and comparing two durations. How the brain accomplishes these tasks, however, is stil...

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Published inBrain and cognition Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 262 - 272
Main Authors Kopec, Charles D., Brody, Carlos D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.12.2010
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Brain
Brain - physiology
Brain Hemisphere Functions
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive Processes
Decision Making
Experiments
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Memory
Mental Recall
Meta Analysis
Models, Psychological
Neuropsychological Tests
Perception
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor Performance
Recall (Psychology)
Recognition, Psychology
Spatial perception. Time perception
Stimuli
Temporal bisection task
Time
Time Factors
Timing
Temporal bisection task
Human
Decision making
Model
Perception
Timing
Meta-analysis
Neuropsychological test
Psychometrics
Cognition
Review
Metaanalysis
Statistical model
Performance
Bisection task
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Summary:The perception and processing of temporal information are tasks the brain must continuously perform. These include measuring the duration of stimuli, storing duration information in memory, recalling such memories, and comparing two durations. How the brain accomplishes these tasks, however, is still open for debate. The temporal bisection task, which requires subjects to compare temporal stimuli to durations held in memory, is perfectly suited to address these questions. Here we perform a meta-analysis of human performance on the temporal bisection task collected from 148 experiments spread across 18 independent studies. With this expanded data set we are able to show that human performance on this task contains a number of significant peculiarities, which in total no single model yet proposed has been able to explain. Here we present a simple 2-step decision model that is capable of explaining all the idiosyncrasies seen in the data.
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ISSN:0278-2626
1090-2147
DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.006