Salient sounds distort time perception and production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21640258 |
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| Authors | Ashley E Symons (0000-0001-5980-6752, Birkbeck, University of London), Ashley Symons, Frederic Dick (0000-0002-2933-3912, Language Science (South Korea), corresponding author), Fred Dick, Adam Tierney (0000-0002-7624-6918, Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 137-147 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-9384 • E-ISSN: 1531-5320 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13423-023-02305-2 |
| PMID | 37430179 |
| OpenAlex | W4383756618 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 47 |
The auditory world is often cacophonous, with some sounds capturing attention and distracting us from our goals. Despite the universality of this experience, many questions remain about how and why sound captures attention, how rapidly behavior is disrupted, and how long this interference lasts. Here, we use a novel measure of behavioral disruption to test predictions made by models of auditory salience. Models predict that goal-directed behavior is disrupted immediately after points in time that feature a high degree of spectrotemporal change. We find that behavioral disruption is precisely time-locked to the onset of distracting sound events: Participants who tap to a metronome temporarily increase their tapping speed 750 ms after the onset of distractors. Moreover, this response is greater for more salient sounds (larger amplitude) and sound changes (greater pitch shift). We find that the time course of behavioral disruption is highly similar after acoustically disparate sound events: Both sound onsets and pitch shifts of continuous background sounds speed responses at 750 ms, with these effects dying out by 1,750 ms. These temporal distortions can be observed using only data from the first trial across participants. A potential mechanism underlying these results is that arousal increases after distracting sound events, leading to an expansion of time perception, and causing participants to misjudge when their next movement should begin
Audiology · Auditory perception · Cognitive psychology · Perception · Salient · Time perception · Communication · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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