Dear Prof. Ostwald and 
Dear All,
 
It seems really difficult to beat Bruno.  
I thought this was a good chance to be the first to respond, but failed.  
We are also interested in "bilateral assimilation" recently (=in this 
decade).  Another path we are aiming at is an electrophysiological study as 
in the following article,
 
Takako Mitsudo, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Gerard 
B. Remijn, Hiroshige Takeichi , Yoshinobu Goto, and Shozo Tobimatsu, 
"Electrophysiological evidence of auditory temporal perception related to the 
assimilation between two neighboring time intervals,"
NeuroQuantology, 7, 
114-127, 2009.
 
An advantage of this kind of study is 
that it is very easy to make demonstrations to check the reported results, 
and indeed the materials seem suitable for educational 
purposes.
 
Best regards,
Yoshitaka
 
Yoshitaka NAKAJIMA, PhD
Professor, 
Department of Human Science
Director, Center for Applied Perceptual 
Research
Kyushu University
Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
Telephone: +81 92 
553 4564
Facsimile: +81 92 553 4520
nakajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
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  Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 2:43 
  AM
  Subject: Re: interval 
  perception
  
Dear Jo:
If you are considering using short intervals 
  (< 500 ms), please look at the literature on the "time shrinking" illusion 
  by Nakajima, ten Hoopen, and coworkers. There are about a dozen published 
  papers on this particular topic.
Best,
Bruno
On 4/28/11 12:12 
  PM, joachim.ostwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  wrote: 
  
    
    Dear 
    list, 
    
    students of mine plan to do a course project on the 
    precission of interval timing perception. 
    
    The 
    problem shall be addressed in two lines 
    
    - 
    interval bisection - how precise has a signal to be in the middle of an 
    interval to perceive the two resulting intervals as being equal. Does this 
    depent on the duration of the original interval, does it depent on signal 
    properties (tone pulse vs click, pulse frequency) 
    
    - if 
    three signals are given in a series, how precisely has the timing of the 
    third stimulus match the interval between the first two signals in order to 
    perceive the two resulting intervals as equal 
    
    Could 
    anybody please offer some hints to studies on these topics so we can start 
    an in depth literature search. 
    
    Thanks 
    very much 
    
    Jo 
    Ostwald 
    
    
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