In "[Similarity Breeds Proximity: Pattern Similarity within and across Contexts Is Related to Later Mnemonic Judgments of Temporal Proximity](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627314000737)" by Youssef Ezzyat and Lila Davachi, timing between stimuli was kept constant, but the context of the stimuli was manipulated.

[![task description][1]][1]

They found that changing contexts increased the perceived temporal distance between stimuli.

[![task results][2]][2] 

Alternatively, in "[Learning and Generalization of Auditory Temporal–Interval Discrimination in Humans](http://www.jneurosci.org/content/17/10/3956.full)" by Wright et al., distance between tones were learned. Additionally, in "[Anticipation of future events improves the ability to estimate elapsed time][3]" by Yoshiaki Tsunoda and Shinji Kakei, the probability distribution of distance between a warning signal and a trigger for a "GO"-like task was learned.

These experiments operate on very different time scales (milliseconds vs seconds) with very differently semantically-loaded stimuli (images vs tones). Although neither of them describe in the exact experiment in the original question, together they show the various ways perception and memory is affected temporal cues.


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/yfczc.jpg
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/jnWxb.jpg
  [3]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Anticipation-of-future-events-improves-the-ability-Tsunoda-Kakei/1bebd54e855cb56fb69ecb0fc7f248a464cebd15