Manipulating number generation: loud + long = large?
Conscious Cogn
; 22(4): 1332-9, 2013 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-24076426
ABSTRACT
Humans make numerous choices every day and tend to perceive these choices as free. The present study shows how simple free choices are biased by experiencing unrelated auditory information. In two experiments, participants categorized tones according to their intensity on the dimensions volume and duration on the majority of trials. On some trials, however, they were to randomly generate a number, and we found these choices to be influenced by tone intensity. Particularly, if participants were cued toward volume, loud tones clearly biased participants to generate larger numbers. For tone duration, a similar effect only emerged if spatial information was reinforced by the motor context of the task. The findings extend previous findings relating to the ATOM framework (A Theory of Magnitude) by an explicit focus on auditory magnitude processing. As such, they also constrain ATOM by showing that the connections between different magnitude dimensions vary to a considerable degree.
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Assunto principal:
Percepção do Tempo
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Comportamento de Escolha
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Autonomia Pessoal
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Percepção Sonora
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article