Publications [#45384] of John E. Staddon
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- J. E. R. Staddon, Interval timing: Memory not a clock,
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 9 no. 7
(2005) .
(last updated on 2006/01/22)Abstract:
Interval timing, anticipation of periodic events signalled by a time marker, has been explained by a separate pacemaker-counter clock. But recent theoretical work suggests that memory strength can act as clock. The way that memory strength declines with time can be inferred from the properties of habituation and the same process provides a parsimonious explanation for proportional timing, the Weber-law property and several other proper-ties of interval timing.