caa a22 4500 475788591 CHVBK 20180406123705.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00008179 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00008179 Vandierendonck André Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Tel.: +32-(0)9-264 64 37; Fax: +32-(0)9-264 64 96 E-mail: Andre.Vandierendonck@rug.ac.be, BE aut Is judgment of random time intervals biased and capacity-limited? [Elektronische Daten] [André Vandierendonck]  Recently, random generation of time intervals has been proposed as a procedure to impair executive processing in a dual-task paradigm without substantial interference with phonological and visuo-spatial working memory resources. A fundamental assumption of this procedure is that humans are able to distinguish time sequences on their degree of randomness. The present study tests this assumption. To this end, non-biased, repetition-biased, alternation-biased sequences and repetitive rhythms were judged under conditions of higher or lower executive load. In Exp. 1, load depended on the presentation speed, while in Exp. 2, a dual-task condition was used with either a concurrent number-copying task or an arithmetic task. It was found that the participants could distinguish repetitive rhythms from more or less random sequences, and that both accuracy of this judgment and latency were affected by the concurrent load. The findings are taken as a first indication that random time judgment is capacity-limited. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008179 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008179 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Vandierendonck André Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Tel.: +32-(0)9-264 64 37; Fax: +32-(0)9-264 64 96 E-mail: Andre.Vandierendonck@rug.ac.be, BE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer