State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, 132 Waihuan East Road, Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China.
Psychol Res. 2020 Oct;84(7):2046-2056. doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01204-3. Epub 2019 May 31.
Timing is essential for various behaviors and relative to vision, audition is considered to be specialized for temporal processing. The present study conducted a sensorimotor timing task that required tapping in synchrony with a temporally regular sequence and a perceptual timing task that required detecting a timing deviation among a temporally regular sequence. The sequence was composed of auditory tones, visual flashes, or a visual bouncing ball. In the sensorimotor task, sensorimotor timing performance (synchronization stability) of the bouncing ball was much greater than that of flashes and was comparable to that of tones. In the perceptual task, where perceptual timing performance of the bouncing ball was greater than that of flashes, it was poorer than that of tones. These results suggest the facilitation of both perceptual and sensorimotor processing of temporal information by the bouncing ball. Given such facilitation of temporal processing, however, audition is still superior over vision in perceptual detection of timing.
对于各种行为来说，时机至关重要，与视觉相比，听觉被认为是专门用于处理时间的。本研究进行了一项感觉运动定时任务，要求参与者根据时间规则的序列进行同步敲击，以及一项感知定时任务，要求参与者检测时间规则序列中的时间偏差。该序列由听觉音调和视觉闪光或视觉弹球组成。在感觉运动任务中，弹球的感觉运动定时性能（同步稳定性）远高于闪光，与音高相当。在感知任务中，弹球的感知定时性能优于闪光，却劣于音高。这些结果表明，弹球促进了时间信息的感知和感觉运动处理。然而，尽管时间处理得到了促进，听觉在感知时间检测方面仍然优于视觉。
