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The expected oddball: effects of implicit and explicit positional expectation on duration perception.
Article in Psychological research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- What's next?: Time is subjectively dilated not only for 'oddball' events, but also for events immediately after oddballs.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Can't catch the beat: Failure to find simple repetition effects in three types of temporal judgements.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Interval timing in a hierarchical violation-of-expectation task: Dissociable effects of local and global predictions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- The perceived duration of expected events depends on how the expectation is formed.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Do I dislike what you dislike? Investigating the effect of disgust on time processing.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Temporal productions in a variable environment: timing starts from stimulus identification rather than onset.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Oddball onset timing: Little evidence of early gating of oddball stimuli from tapping, reacting, and producing.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
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Abstract
The oddball duration effect describes how a rare stimulus amongst a string of standard stimuli is perceived to have a longer duration than the standards, even if they are of the same objective duration. Several theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. In order to adjudicate between opposing explanations, we have borrowed three extensively studied paradigms from the variable foreperiod literature: the sequential foreperiod, temporal cueing and a skewed foreperiod distribution. This approach allowed us to examine the effects of positional expectation on perceived oddball duration, while avoiding confounds from first-order positioning of the oddball in a sequence of standards. Through these three experiments, we demonstrate a clear role of positional expectation in the lengthening of the perceived duration of an oddball. We show that this expectation effect is separable from other drivers of the oddball duration illusion.
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