ArticleiScience2025
Emergent motor timing enhances time perception.
Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bridging the divide in motor learning research.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- Decoding time from space: A review of the complication clock and its representation of temporal experience.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Psychometric functions for temporal discrimination: Duration or log duration?Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Swimming expertise is associated with enhanced suprasecond visual duration discrimination across silent and rhythmic contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of consciously timed movements in shaping and improving auditory timing.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Neural Encoding and Representation of Time for Sensorimotor Control and Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Precise timing underlies many behaviors, from musical performance to navigating a dynamic environment. This study examined how stable temporal patterns that emerge during goal-directed movements influence timing acuity in perceptual discrimination. Rather than relying on explicitly timed actions, we used a self-paced throwing task in which temporal structure develops implicitly with practice. Across three experiments, participants were trained for four days, developing stable motor timing reflected in consistent "ball release times." This emergent timing selectively enhanced sensitivity to matching temporal intervals in a perceptual discrimination task. Importantly, this effect was not explained by perceptual learning and persisted over several weeks, suggesting a durable motor-perceptual linkage. The results point to a shared representation of time in action and perception, an emergent timing primitive that arises through experience in spatiotemporal movements. These findings shed light on how motor learning can shape temporal perception in ecologically relevant contexts, with implications for rehabilitation and sensorimotor integration.
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