Wearden J H, Goodson Greg, Foran Karin
School of Psychology, Dorothy Hodgkin Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5 BG, UK.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2007 Dec;60(12):1616-28. doi: 10.1080/17470210601121916.
Two experiments tested humans on a memory for duration task based on the method of Wearden and Ferrara (1993), which had previously provided evidence for subjective shortening in memory for stimulus duration. Auditory stimuli were tones (filled) or click-defined intervals (unfilled). Filled visual stimuli were either squares or lines, with the unfilled interval being the time between two line presentations. In Experiment 1, good evidence for subjective shortening was found when filled and unfilled visual stimuli, or filled auditory stimuli, were used, but evidence for subjective shortening with unfilled auditory stimuli was more ambiguous. Experiment 2 used a simplified variant of the Wearden and Ferrara task, and evidence for subjective shortening was obtained from all four stimulus types.
两项实验基于韦尔登和费拉拉（1993年）的方法，对人类进行了一项时长记忆任务测试，该方法之前已为刺激时长记忆中的主观缩短提供了证据。听觉刺激为纯音（实心）或点击定义的间隔（空心）。实心视觉刺激为正方形或线条，空心间隔为两条线呈现之间的时间。在实验1中，当使用实心和空心视觉刺激或实心听觉刺激时，发现了主观缩短的有力证据，但空心听觉刺激的主观缩短证据则更为模糊。实验2使用了韦尔登和费拉拉任务的简化变体，并且从所有四种刺激类型中都获得了主观缩短的证据。
