Production and Reproduction of Duration: Intersensory Comparisons

Abstract

Previous experiments demonstrated that auditory durations are judged longer than visual ones using verbal category-scaling procedures within the methods of absolute judgment and successive comparison. To determine if this intersensory difference was dependent upon the response system, Ss were required to produce lights and sounds upon command or provide intramodal and crossmodal reproductions of the same standards without verbal intervention. Sounds were judged longer than lights via the nonverbal methods of production and reproduction, thus confirming earlier results and reducing the likelihood that the intersensory difference is a product of the response system alone.