ABSTRACT
The results of three experiments (Brown & Hitchcock, 1965; Goldstone, 1968; Stevens & Greenbaum, 1966) in which a time interval presented as sound was reproduced as a time interval of light, and vice versa, were investigated in terms of a new model for time perception (Eisler, 1975). It is proposed (a) that the subject in both tasks attends exclusively to the subjectively more intense modality and thus treats both durations as if they were either sound or light; and (b) that the two subjective durations are weighted according to the subject’s relative uncertainty between them by his “applying” different scale units in the psychophysical power function.
