A Brief History of 'The Psychology of Time Perception'
| Autor: | Melissa J. Allman, Trevor B. Penney, Warren H. Meck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cognitive science
Cognitive Neuroscience Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Foundation (evidence) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Context (language use) Time perception 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Associative learning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal species Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Timing & Time Perception. 4:299-314 |
| ISSN: | 2213-4468 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/22134468-00002071 |
| Popis: | Basic mechanisms of interval timing and associative learning are shared by many animal species, and develop quickly in early life, particularly across infancy, and childhood. Indeed, John Wearden in his book “The Psychology of Time Perception”, which is based on decades of his own research with colleagues, and which our commentary serves to primarily review, has been instrumental in implementing animal models and methods in children and adults, and has revealed important similarities (and differences) between human timing (and that of animals) when considered within the context of scalar timing theory. These seminal studies provide a firm foundation upon which the contemporary multifaceted field of timing and time perception has since advanced. The contents of the book are arguably one piece of a larger puzzle, and as Wearden cautions, “The reader is warned that my own contribution to the field has been exaggerated here, but if you are not interested in your own work, why would anyone else be?” Surely there will be many interested readers, however the book is noticeably lacking in it neurobiological perspective. The mind (however it is conceived) needs a brain (even if behaviorists tend to say “the brain behaves”, and most neuroscientists currently have a tenuous grasp on the neural mechanisms of temporal cognition), and to truly understand the psychology of time, brain and behavior must go hand in hand regardless of the twists, turns, and detours along the way. |
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