Scalar properties in animal timing: Conformity and violations

[en] The article reviews data from animal subjects on a range of timing tasks (including fixed-interval and temporal differentiation schedules, stimulus timing, aversive conditioning, and Pavlovian methods) with respect to conformity to the two scalar properties of timing behaviour: mean accuracy and scalar (Weberian) variance. Systematic deviations were found in data from temporal differentiation schedules, timing of very short (< 100 ms) or very long (> 100 s) durations, effects of "task difficulty", and some special cases where circadian and interval timing seemed to interact, or where some specific durations seemed to be timed more precisely than others. Theoretical reconciliation of some of these deviations with underlying scalar timing can be achieved, but a number of problematical cases remain unexplained.

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Anatomy (cytology, histology, embryology...) & physiology
Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology

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Lejeune, Helga ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unité de psychobiologie des processus temporels

Wearden, J. H.

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English

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Scalar properties in animal timing: Conformity and violations

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November 2006

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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1747-0218

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1747-0226

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Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom

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1875-1908

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