Mysterious temporal order effects in 2IFC experiments

Contingent capture effects in temporal order judgments.

The contingent attentional capture hypothesis proposes that visual stimuli that do not possess characteristics relevant for the current task will not capture attention, irrespective of their bottom-up saliency. Typically, contingent capture is tested in a spatial cuing paradigm, comparing manual reaction times (RTs) across different conditions. However, attention may act through several mechani...

High-Order Temporal Effects in Finite-State Machine Analysis

The objective of this paper is to illustrate, analytically and quantitatively, the effect of high-order temporal correlations on steady-state and transition probability calculations in Finite State Machines (FSMs) analysis. As the main theoretical contribution, it is shown that, if the sequence feeding the target circuit has temporal correlations of order k, then a lag-k Markov chain model of t...

Effects of Voluntary Movements on Audio-Tactile Temporal Order Judgment

The present study aims to investigate the effect of voluntary movements on human temporal perception in multisensory integration. We therefore performed temporal order judgment (TOJ) tasks in audio-tactile integration under three conditions: no movement, involuntary movement, and voluntary movement. It is known that the point of subjective simultaneity (PSS) under the no movement condition, tha...

Spatial coherence effects on second- and fourth-order temporal interference.

We report the results of two experiments performed with two-photon light, produced via collinear degenerate optical spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC), in which both second-order (one-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon) interferograms are recorded in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). In the first experiment, high-visibility fringes are obtained for both the second- and fourth-ord...

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