Abstract
Time is a fundamental dimension of our behavior and enables us to guide our actions and to experience time such as predicting collisions or listening to music. In this study, we investigate the regulation and covariation of motor timing and time perception functions in left- and right-handers who are characterized by distinct brain processing mechanisms for cognitive-motor control. To this purpose, we use a combination of tasks that assess the timed responses during movements and the perception of time intervals. The results showed a positive association across left- and right-handers between movement-driven timing and perceived interval duration when adopting a preferred tempo, suggesting cross-domain coupling between both abilities when an intrinsic timescale is present. Handedness guided motor timing during externally-driven conditions that required cognitive intervention, which specifies the relevance of action expertise for the performance of timed-based motor activities. Overall, our results reveal that individual variation across domain-general and domain-specific levels of organization plays a steering role in how one predicts, perceives and experiences time, which accordingly impacts on cognition and behavior.
Highlights
Time is a fundamental dimension of our behavior and plays an essential role in guiding everyday activities such as predicting collisions when determining whether it is safe to cross the road, clapping to the beat of a song or applauding a performance at a concert (Néda et al, 2000; Spapé and Serrien, 2011)
This demonstrates the automatic nature of timed responses to a stimulus or event; a basic skill that has formed the basis of sensorimotor synchronization research (Aschersleben, 2002; Repp and Su, 2013)
Motor Tasks For paced tapping, the intertap interval (ITI) measurements in addition to the percentage of perceived regularity of the pacing sequence were analyzed by means of 2 (Group; left- and right-handers) × 3 (Perturbation condition; no = 0%, subliminal = 3% and supraliminal = 20%) × 2 (Hand; left and right) mixed ANOVAs
Summary
Time is a fundamental dimension of our behavior and plays an essential role in guiding everyday activities such as predicting collisions when determining whether it is safe to cross the road, clapping to the beat of a song or applauding a performance at a concert (Néda et al, 2000; Spapé and Serrien, 2011). This demonstrates the automatic nature of timed responses to a stimulus or event; a basic skill that has formed the basis of sensorimotor synchronization research (Aschersleben, 2002; Repp and Su, 2013). In addition to processes of anticipation that index the prediction of events, processes of adaptation occur that assist the reaction to events
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