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Published on: July 1, 2015
Effect of time compression and expansion on the discrimination of tonal patterns
1Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611.
Abstract:
This experiment tested how well human listeners can discriminate between temporal patterns that are compressed or expanded in time. The listener's task was to determine whether two arrhythmic, tonal sequences had the same or different temporal patterns. According to the pattern correlation model [R. D. Sorkin, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 1695-1701 (1990)], listeners perform this task by computing the correlation between the pattern of time intervals marked by the tones in each sequence. Listener performance dropped when one of the sequences was compressed or expanded in time. In order for the model to describe the observed performance, it was necessary to postulate an internal noise component that was proportional to the magnitude of the difference between the sequence transformations.
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