Publications [#288034] of John E. Staddon

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  1. Staddon, JER, Interval timing: memory, not a clock., Trends in cognitive sciences, vol. 9 no. 7 (July, 2005), pp. 312-314 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
    (last updated on 2025/03/09)

    Abstract:
    Anticipation of periodic events signalled by a time marker, or interval timing, has been explained by a separate pacemaker-counter clock. However, recent research has added support to an older idea: that memory strength can act as a clock. The way that memory strength decreases with time can be inferred from the properties of habituation, and the underlying process also provides a unified explanation for proportional timing, the Weber-law property and several other properties of interval timing.