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Time judgments in dual-task conditions

University of British Columbia

Every day we complete a number of tasks which require us to accurately time events, from estimating how long it will take us to drive to work in the morning to steeping our afternoon tea for the correct duration. Although timing is very important in our everyday lives, we know relatively little about how we process time information. Many models have been proposed to account for human timing, with the most prominent are the attentional gate model (AGM) and the multiple resources model. The AGM and the multiple resources model make many similar predictions about human timing, and it is often difficult to discriminate between the two. Toward this goal, the present research focused on a situation in which the two models make opposing predictions, that is, conditions which require participants two carry out two tasks concurrently with both of them requiring time-related processing.. Three experiments are reported, in which subjects were asked to estimate various shorter or longer intervals while concurrently carrying out a task that either required processing of time-related information or non-time based information. Results of all three studies seem more supportive of the multiple resources model of timing, rather than the AGM.

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2010-08-24

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27745

Psychology

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/