Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2010 Dec;36(6):1565-75. doi: 10.1037/a0020380.
Event timing is manifested when participants make discrete movements such as repeatedly tapping a key. Emergent timing is manifested when participants make continuous movements such as repeatedly drawing a circle. Here we pursued the possibility that providing salient perceptual events to mark the completion of time intervals could allow circle drawing and tapping to share a common timing process. Individual differences in timing performance were correlated in the tapping and circle drawing tasks when a salient auditory event marked the completion of a cycle. The results suggest that the distinction between event timing and emergent timing does not inhere solely in kinematics but inheres as well in the way task goals are represented.
当参与者进行离散运动（如反复敲击键盘）时，就会表现出事件计时；当参与者进行连续运动（如反复画圆）时，就会表现出涌现计时。在这里，我们探讨了这样一种可能性，即提供显著的感知事件来标记时间间隔的完成，可能会使画圆和敲击共享一个共同的计时过程。当一个显著的听觉事件标记一个周期的完成时，在敲击和画圆任务中，计时表现的个体差异是相关的。研究结果表明，事件计时和涌现计时之间的区别不仅存在于运动学中，而且存在于任务目标的表现方式中。
