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The choose-short effect and trace models of timing.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Staddon, JE; Higa, JJ
Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
November 1999

The tuned-trace multiple-time-scale (MTS) theory of timing can account both for the puzzling choose-short effect in time-discrimination experiments and for the complementary choose-long effect. But it cannot easily explain why the choose-short effect seems to disappear when the intertrial and recall intervals are signaled by different stimuli. Do differential stimuli actually abolish the effect, or merely improve memory? If the latter, there are ways in which an expanded MTS theory might explain differential-context effects in terms of reduced interference. If the former, there are observational and experimental ways to determine whether differential context favors prospective encoding or some other nontemporal discrimination.

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Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

November 1999

Volume

72

Issue

3

Start / End Page

473 / 478

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Rats
  • Columbidae
  • Choice Behavior
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Animals
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
 

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Staddon, J. E., & Higa, J. J. (1999). The choose-short effect and trace models of timing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72(3), 473–478. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1999.72-473
Staddon, J. E., and J. J. Higa. “The choose-short effect and trace models of timing.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 72, no. 3 (November 1999): 473–78. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1999.72-473.
Staddon JE, Higa JJ. The choose-short effect and trace models of timing. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1999 Nov;72(3):473–8.
Staddon, J. E., and J. J. Higa. “The choose-short effect and trace models of timing.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 72, no. 3, Nov. 1999, pp. 473–78. Epmc, doi:10.1901/jeab.1999.72-473.
Staddon JE, Higa JJ. The choose-short effect and trace models of timing. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1999 Nov;72(3):473–478.

Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

November 1999

Volume

72

Issue

3

Start / End Page

473 / 478

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Rats
  • Columbidae
  • Choice Behavior
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Animals
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology