Temporal regularity allows predicting the temporal locus of future information thereby potentially facilitating cognitive processing. We applied event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate how temporal regularity impacts pre-attentive and attentive processing of deviance in the auditory modality. Participants listened to sequences of sinusoidal tones differing exclusively in pitch. The...

The existence of an internal clock and its involvement in information processing has been investigated in humans using the experimental protocol of Treisman et al. (1990) [Treisman et al., 1990. Perception, 19, 705-743]. In this protocol, a periodical stimulation, which is assumed to drive an internal clock, is delivered during a reaction time (RT) task. The accelerating or slowing down effects...

abstract Keywords: temporal processing, temporal extraction, tense, aspect, hybrid approaches, deep linguistic processing, shallow linguistic processing The full-fledged processing of temporal information presents specific challenges. These difficulties largely stem from the fact that the temporal meaning conveyed by grammatical means interacts with many extra-linguistic factors (world knowledg...

The new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) include sensory disturbances in addition to the well-established language, communication, and social deficits. One sensory disturbance seen in ASD is an impaired ability to integrate multisensory information into a unified percept. This may arise from an underlying impairment in which individuals with ASD have difficulty per...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between two different temporal processing tasks and word identification performance in skilled, dyslexic and poor adult readers. In Experiment 1 spatial and temporal sequencing tasks were conducted. It was found that adult dyslexics were significantly less accurate than skilled readers across all conditions in the temporal sequencing ta...

BACKGROUND Auditory temporal processing. AIM To compare the performance of children in auditory temporal processing tests according to different temporal variables such as inter-stimulus interval, stimuli duration and type of task (discrimination or ordering). METHOD 27 children, with ages between 9 to 12 years, were evaluated. In order to analyze the effect of temporal variables, an adapta...

Two fundamental cognitive functions, selective attention and processing of time, have been simultaneously explored in recent studies of temporal orienting of attention. A temporal-orienting procedure may consist of a temporal analogue to the Posner's paradigm, such that symbolic cues indicate the most probable moment for target arrival. Behavioral measures suggest that performance is improved f...

This paper examines the impact of time averaging and interval sampling data assuming that the data generating process for a given series follows a random walk with uncorrelated increments. We provide expressions for the corresponding variances, and covariances, for both the levels and differences of the aggregated series, demonstrating how the degree of temporal aggregation impacts these partic...