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CHILDREN'S JUDGEMENTS OF DURATION
Author(s) -
HERMELIN B. M.,
O'CONNOR N.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02005.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , duration (music) , audiology , auditory stimuli , time perception , contrast (vision) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , perception , neuroscience , acoustics , medicine , physics , artificial intelligence , computer science
The ability of young children to distinguish a short from a long duration signal was investigated. The findings were: (1) Though children do not tend to orientate spontaneously towards a temporal stimulus dimension, such orientation increases with specific instructions. (2) The difference between the ability to make non‐temporal as compared with temporal judgements is more marked when visual than when auditory stimuli are given. (3) Duration of lights as well as sounds is judged more efficiently when the stimuli are presented simultaneously rather than successively. This is in contrast to the results from non‐temporal judgements, particularly where tones are concerned. Pitch discrimination is easiest when the two tones to be discriminated are heard one after the other.