Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Pages: 51-68

Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volume number: 66

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1747-0218

eISSN: 1747-0226

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.694454

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: 
The open-loop model by Wing and Kristofferson has successfully explained many aspects of movement timing. A later adaptation of the model assumes that timing processes do not control the movements themselves, but the sensory consequences of the movements. The present study tested direct predictions from this sensory-goals model. In two experiments, participants were instructed to produce regular intervals by tapping alternately with the index fingers of the left and the right hand. Auditory feedback tones from the taps of one hand were delayed. As a consequence, regular intervals between taps resulted in irregular intervals between feedback tones. Participants compensated for this auditory irregularity by changing their movement timing. Compensation effects increased with the magnitude of feedback delay (Experiment 1) and were also observed in a unimanual variant of the task (Experiment 2). The pattern of effects in alternating tapping suggests that compensation processes were anticipatorythat is, compensate for upcoming feedback delay rather than being reactions to delay. All experiments confirmed formal model predictions. Taken together, the findings corroborate the sensory-goals adaptation of the WingKristofferson model.

Harvard Citation style: Drewing, K. (2013) Delayed auditory feedback in repetitive tapping: A role for the sensory goal, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(1), pp. 51-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.694454

APA Citation style: Drewing, K. (2013). Delayed auditory feedback in repetitive tapping: A role for the sensory goal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66(1), 51-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.694454