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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Sensorimotor Integration

Background:

  • Timing is crucial for behavior, particularly for synchronizing actions with external events.
  • Understanding the interplay between perceptual timing and motor execution is key to explaining sensorimotor control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between perception and action timing.
  • To examine how auditory accentuation and timing perturbations influence sensorimotor synchronization.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a sensorimotor tapping task while exposed to pitch-accented tones.
  • Timing regularity was manipulated with subliminal (small) and conscious (large) perturbations.
  • Tap-to-tone asynchrony and variability were analyzed globally and locally.

Main Results:

  • Pitch accentuation increased tap-to-tone asynchrony in regular and subliminal irregular trials, but not in consciously perceived irregular trials.
  • Asynchrony variability increased only in conscious irregular trials.
  • Pitch accentuation locally lengthened tapping responses specifically in consciously perceived irregular trials.

Conclusions:

  • Common timing processes for perception and action are engaged automatically.
  • Cognitive intervention, through awareness of timing perturbations, can override automatic sensorimotor synchronization.
  • The perception-action timing association is flexible within a functional information processing framework.