Interval timing: memory, not a clock.
Journal Article (Review;Journal Article)
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.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Staddon, JE
Published Date
- July 2005
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 9 / 7
Start / End Page
- 312 - 314
PubMed ID
- 15953755
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1879-307X
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1364-6613
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/j.tics.2005.05.013
Language
- eng