Effects of response language and stimulus context upon judgments of visual and temporal extent

College-student subjects judged duration (Experiment 1) or line length (Experiment 2) using conventional measurement units (sec and in.) and cross-modality matching. In each experiment, three stimulus contexts were created varying in average stimulus value. Judgmental contrast was observed in the cross-modality judgments, but not in the conventional-units judgments. It was inferred that the context effects were operating on response-translation processes.