TimingEffekt
TimingEffekt is a term used in German-speaking technical literature to describe the influence of timing on observed outcomes in experimental and practical systems. Broadly, it refers to how small shifts in the timing of stimuli, measurements, or control actions relative to a system's internal clocks or processing windows can produce systematic biases or different results. TimingEffekt is relevant across disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology, electronics, telecommunications, and multimedia processing, where precise synchronization between events, signals, and measurements matters.
Common causes include jitter (timing variability), latency differences, asynchronous clocks, sampling-rate mismatches, and phase offsets between
Measurement and mitigation strategies focus on reducing timing uncertainty and aligning clocks. Approaches include synchronized clocks,
See also: synchronization, latency, jitter, time stamping, phase.