Bausenhart Karin M, Rolke Bettina, Ulrich Rolf
Psychologisches Institut, University of Tübingen, Friedrichstrasse 21, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2007 Dec;60(12):1610-5. doi: 10.1080/17470210701536419.
Temporal preparation often has been assumed to influence motor stages of information processing. Recent studies, however, challenge this notion and provide evidence for a facilitation of visual processing. The present study was designed to investigate whether perceptual processing in the auditory domain also benefits from temporal preparation. To this end, we employed a pitch discrimination task. In Experiment 1, discrimination performance was clearly improved when participants were temporally prepared. This finding was confirmed in Experiment 2, which ruled out possible influences of short-term memory. The results support the notion that temporal preparation enhances perceptual processing not only in the visual, but also in the auditory, modality.
时间准备通常被认为会影响信息处理的运动阶段。然而，最近的研究对这一观点提出了挑战，并为视觉处理的促进提供了证据。本研究旨在调查听觉领域的知觉处理是否也受益于时间准备。为此，我们采用了音高辨别任务。在实验1中，当参与者进行时间准备时，辨别性能明显提高。实验2证实了这一发现，排除了短期记忆的可能影响。结果支持了这样一种观点，即时间准备不仅能增强视觉模态，也能增强听觉模态的知觉处理。
