Abstract
OPINION article Front. Integr. Neurosci., 18 August 2011 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2011.00038
Highlights
The application of implicit knowledge could be useful in terms of optimizing behavioral performance in many cases, but it can bias our behavior in unfavorable ways
Participants tend to bias their reproductions toward the mean of the distribution; they overestimate “short” durations and underestimate “long” durations. This phenomenon was first referred to as Vierordt’s law (Woodrow, 1951; Lejeune and Wearden, 2009; Mamassian and Landy, 2010) and, more recently, has been described as a form of “memory-mixing,” which represents the distortions in temporal memory caused by the encoding of multiple signal durations into a single memory distribution (Penney et al, 1998, 2000; Klapproth, 2009; Grondin, 2010; Gu and Meck, 2011)
Devoting less attention to the encoding of the immediate stimulus could result in the reliance on prior context through automatic processing, generating a form of “memorymixing.” If “memory-mixing” is generated by implicit knowledge of prior contexts and reliance on automatic processing, we could hypothesize that patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), who are known to have deficits in implicit learning (Deckersbach et al, 2002; Kathmann et al, 2005), will display a lesser degree of “memory-mixing” on a temporal reproduction/comparison task in comparison to healthy participants
Summary
The application of implicit knowledge could be useful in terms of optimizing behavioral performance in many cases, but it can bias our behavior in unfavorable ways. This phenomenon was first referred to as Vierordt’s law (Woodrow, 1951; Lejeune and Wearden, 2009; Mamassian and Landy, 2010) and, more recently, has been described as a form of “memory-mixing,” which represents the distortions in temporal memory caused by the encoding of multiple signal durations into a single memory distribution (Penney et al, 1998, 2000; Klapproth, 2009; Grondin, 2010; Gu and Meck, 2011).
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