Publications [#12236] of John E. Staddon
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- Staddon, J.E.R., Chelaru, I.M., & Higa, J.J., Habituation, Memory and the Brain: The Dynamics of Interval Timing,
Behavioural Processes, vol. 57
(2002),
pp. 71-88 .
(last updated on 2006/01/22)Abstract:
Memory decay is rapid at first and slower later—a feature that accounts for Jost’s memory law: that old memories gain on newer ones with lapse of time. The rate-sensitive property of habituation—that recovery after spaced stimuli may be slower than after massed—provides a clue to the dynamics of memory decay. Rate-sensitive habituation can be modeled by a cascade of thresholded integrator units that have a counterpart in human brain areas identified by magnetic source imaging (MSI). The memory trace component of the multiple-time-scale model for habituation can provide a ‘clock’ that has the properties necessary to account for both static and dynamic properties of interval timing: static proportional and Weber-law timing as well as dynamic tracking of progressive, ‘impulse’ and periodic interval sequences.