The time of our lives: Life span development of timing and event tracking
The time of our lives: Life span development of timing and event tracking
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-3445.135.3.348
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Miller, Nathaniel S.
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作者：
McAuley, J. Devin;Jones, Mari Riess;Miller, Nathaniel S.
为305名参与者（4-95岁）构建了寿命发展概况，用于一组节奏和非节奏感知运动计时任务，其中包括在广泛的目标事件率下的同步-继续敲击。两个寿命假设，来自夹带理论的时间和事件跟踪，进行了测试。一个优选的时期假设预测单调放缓的首选率（克里思）的事件跟踪整个生命周期。夹带区域假说预测的事件发生率的范围内，产生有效的时间跨度的二次曲线，具体而言，年龄特定的夹带区域应在童年和成年后期比中年窄。跨任务的调查结果为这两个假设提供了一致的支持。这些研究结果的影响进行了讨论，了解关键时期的发展和年龄相关的事件发生的时间放缓。
Life span developmental profiles were constructed for 305 participants (ages 4-95) for a battery of paced and unpaced perceptual-motor timing tasks that included synchronize-continue tapping at a wide range of target event rates. Two life span hypotheses, derived from an entrainment theory of timing and event tracking, were tested. A preferred period hypothesis predicted a monotonic slowing of a preferred rate (tempo) of event tracking across the life span. An entrainment region hypothesis predicted a quadratic profile in the range of event rates that produced effective timing across the life span; specifically, age-specific entrainment regions should be narrower in childhood and late adulthood than in midlife. Findings across tasks provide converging support for both hypotheses. Implications of these findings are discussed for understanding critical periods in development and age-related slowing of event timing.