Supporting the mobile notification process through tactile cues selected using a paired comparison task

Decision times, consistency measures, and their relationships were used to study stimulus-stimulus and subject-stimulus distance for two types of responses—single stimulus and paired comparisons, and two types of tasks—preference and judged complexity. Two assumptions based on Coombs' (1964) theory of data—that decision time is inversely related to distance and that both stimulus and ideal points have variability—led to the following predictions: (1) stimulus ordering from paired comparison judgments will be predictable from the ordering of decision times in single stimulus judgments; (2) more intransitive triads will occur in paired comparison preference judgments than paired comparison complexity judgments; and (3) complexity judgments will exhibit greater concordance than preference judgments. All three predictions were supported by data. Of three latency transformations investigated, standardized reciprocal times showed the highest correlation with difference in ranks in the paired comparison task.

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Analysis-By-Synthesis of Timbre, Timing, and Dynamics in Expressive Clarinet Performance

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.1525/mp.2011.28.3.265 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 265-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Mathieu Barthet ◽

Philippe Depalle ◽

Richard Kronland-Martinet ◽

Søølvi Ystad

Keyword(s):

Paired Comparison ◽

Mean Square ◽

Acoustical Parameters ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Spectral Centroid ◽

Musical Preference ◽

Clarinet Performance ◽

Analysis By Synthesis ◽

Synthesis Approach ◽

Acoustical Energy

In a Previous Study, Mechanical and Expressive clarinet performances of Bach's Suite No. II and Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings were analyzed to determine whether some acoustical correlates of timbre (e.g., spectral centroid), timing (intertone onset interval), and dynamics (root mean square envelope) showed significant differences depending on the expressive intention of the performer. In the present companion study, we investigate the effects of these acoustical parameters on listeners' preferences. An analysis-by-synthesis approach was used to transform previously recorded clarinet performances by reducing the expressive deviations from the spectral centroid, the intertone onset interval and the acoustical energy. Twenty skilled musicians were asked to select which version they preferred in a paired comparison task. The results of statistical analyses showed that the removal of the spectral centroid variations resulted in the greatest loss of musical preference.

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Some Vicissitudes of Chain P-Factor Analysis: Criterion of Meaningfulness

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1967.21.3.1005 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 1005-1013 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kenneth I. Howard ◽

James A. Hill

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Paired Comparison ◽

Real Data ◽

Error Variance ◽

True Score ◽

Monte Carlo Data ◽

Comparison Task ◽

The Real ◽

A Chain ◽

P Factor

In a Chain P-factor analysis the elimination of the between person variance reduces the contribution of “true score” variance to the true score-total score variance ratio based on the reduced scores. Factors which emerge in such an analysis may unduly reflect the influence of error variance and demand caution in their interpretation. An expanded criterion of meaningfulness was proposed which contrasted an obtained solution with a randomly generated solution under the null hypothesis that independent judges could not do better than chance in distinguishing the real factors from the random ones. A Chain P-analysis of real data gathered from 45 female patients, tested after each of 10 successive psychotherapy sessions, was contrasted with a parallel analysis of Monte-Carlo data. Four judges significantly discriminated the real factors from the random factors in a paired comparison task. The results strengthened the credibility of the Chain P-analysis and established the usefulness of an expanded criterion of meaningfulness.

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Attention, novelty preference and the visual paired comparison task

Experimental Eye Research ◽

10.1016/j.exer.2018.11.009 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 183 ◽

pp. 52-56

Author(s):

Moshe Eizenman ◽

Jonathan Chung ◽

MingHan Yu ◽

Hengrui Jia ◽

Pingping Jiang

Keyword(s):

Paired Comparison ◽

Novelty Preference ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Visual Paired Comparison

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Interpreting visual preferences in the visual paired-comparison task.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition ◽

10.1037/0278-7393.33.5.823 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. 823-831 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Jenny Richmond ◽

Michael Colombo ◽

Harlene Hayne

Keyword(s):

Paired Comparison ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Visual Preferences ◽

Visual Paired Comparison

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Individual differences in look duration, choice trial length, and paired-comparison task performance

Infant Behavior and Development ◽

10.1016/s0163-6383(98)91564-8 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 351

Author(s):

John Colombo ◽

W.Allen Richman ◽

Julie E. Harlan ◽

Janet E. Frick

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Task Performance ◽

Paired Comparison ◽

Choice Trial ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Trial Length

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Illusory Tempo Changes Due to Musical Characteristics

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.1525/mp.2011.28.4.367 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 367-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Marilyn G. Boltz

Keyword(s):

Natural Environment ◽

Paired Comparison ◽

Music Cognition ◽

Musical Performance ◽

Potential Influence ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Structural Dimensions ◽

Musical Characteristics ◽

Over Time

Recent research in music cognition has investigated ways in which different structural dimensions interact to influence perception and cognition. In the present research, various musical characteristics were manipulated to observe their potential influence on perceived tempo. In Experiment 1, participants were given a paired comparison task in which music-like patterns differed in both the pitch octave (high vs. low) and timbre (bright vs. dull) in which they were played. The results indicated that relative to their standard referents, comparison melodies were judged faster when displaying a higher pitch and/or a brighter timbre—even when no actual tempo differences existed. Experiment 2 converged on these findings by demonstrating that the perceived tempo of a melody was judged faster when it increased in pitch and/or loudness over time. These results are suggested to stem from an overgeneralization of certain structural correlations within the natural environment that, in turn, has implications for both musical performance and the processing of tempo information.

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Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0257655 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (9) ◽

pp. e0257655

Author(s):

Liquan Liu ◽

Mieke du Toit ◽

Gabrielle Weidemann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Differences ◽

Paired Comparison ◽

East Asian ◽

Emotional Expressions ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Preferential Looking ◽

Specific Emotion ◽

Visual Paired Comparison ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Different Cultures

A myriad of emotion perception studies has shown infants’ ability to discriminate different emotional categories, yet there has been little investigation of infants’ perception of cultural differences in emotions. Hence little is known about the extent to which culture-specific emotion information is recognised in the beginning of life. Caucasian Australian infants of 10–12 months participated in a visual-paired comparison task where their preferential looking patterns to three types of infant-directed emotions (anger, happiness, surprise) from two different cultures (Australian, Japanese) were examined. Differences in racial appearances were controlled. Infants exhibited preferential looking to Japanese over Caucasian Australian mothers’ angry and surprised expressions, whereas no difference was observed in trials involving East-Asian Australian mothers. In addition, infants preferred Caucasian Australian mothers’ happy expressions. These findings suggest that 11-month-olds are sensitive to cultural differences in spontaneous infant-directed emotional expressions when they are combined with a difference in racial appearance.

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