| Dear Lori, In music perception research there have been studies of the effect of pitch/pitch register on tempo perception, e.g., Tamir-Ostrover & Eitan (2015) https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2015.33.2.179, as well as Terhardt’s early article: Terhardt, E. Psychoacoustic evaluation of musical sounds. Perception & Psychophysics 23, 483–492 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199523. I note, however, that most of the durations and tempos studied in the music tempo/duration perception literature are at least an order of magnitude longer/slower than the 50-90ms durations used in the studies you describe. All best, Justin London Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities Carleton College, Northfield MN USA On Nov 1, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Lori Holt <lholt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear auditory aficionados, Fred Dick and I have been doing some work with a long-short tone duration
identification task (50ms vs 90ms) where tone frequency is chosen from
one of x values in a truncated range (e.g., 800Hz, 920Hz, 1000Hz,
1080Hz, 1200Hz). (You might be familiar with this
paradigm from Mondor & Bregman, 1994). We have found a weak but quite reliable effect, where subjects tend to judge lower frequencies more often as 'long', and higher frequencies as 'short'. This was unexpected yet remarkably consistent across a lot of experiments. We have been unable to track down mention of this in the literature. We did dig up a few papers that purported to be on the general topic of frequency effects on duration judgments, but these ended up being about different things entirely... We wondered whether anyone might be familiar with literature we've missed- or maybe even have encountered something like this before yourself? Best wishes, Lori & Fred ______________________________________________________________ loriholtProfessor | Department of Psychology Professor | Neuroscience Institute Co-Director | Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Co-Director | Behavioral Brain (B2) Research Training Program (NIGMS) Carnegie Mellon University |