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The effects, measured in terms of reproductions, of pairing 4-sec-duration stimuli were examined for six ISIs varying between 1 and 26 sec. The results obtained in two experiments suggest that both members of a pair are affected by pairing, with the first-presented underestimated and the second-presented overestimated relative to unpaired durations. As well, unpaired durations tend to underestimate the standard. Each of these effects decreases in magnitude as ISI (delay) is increased. These results correctly predict the negative time-order errors observed in thecomparison of durations, and were interpreted as suggesting a memory/perceptual phenomenon rather than a decision bias as a locus for the time-order errors observed in the duration comparison situation.
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This research was supported by a National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship to Jamieson. by grants from NRC and Carleton University to Pctrusic, and by a grant from NRC to R. F. Dillon.
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Jamieson, D.G., Petrusic, W.M. Pairing effects and time-order errors in duration discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics 18, 107–113 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204096
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