Time and memory: towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing.
J. Staddon, и J. Higa. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 71 (2):
215--251(марта 1999)
Аннотация
A popular view of interval timing in animals is that it is driven
by a discrete pacemaker-accumulator mechanism that yields a linear
scale for encoded time. But these mechanisms are fundamentally at
odds with the Weber law property of interval timing, and experiments
that support linear encoded time can be interpreted in other ways.
We argue that the dominant pacemaker-accumulator theory, scalar expectancy
theory (SET), fails to explain some basic properties of operant behavior
on interval-timing procedures and can only accommodate a number of
discrepancies by modifications and elaborations that raise questions
about the entire theory. We propose an alternative that is based
on principles of memory dynamics derived from the multiple-time-scale
(MTS) model of habituation. The MTS timing model can account for
data from a wide variety of time-related experiments: proportional
and Weber law temporal discrimination, transient as well as persistent
effects of reinforcement omission and reinforcement magnitude, bisection,
the discrimination of relative as well as absolute duration, and
the choose-short effect and its analogue in number-discrimination
experiments. Resemblances between timing and counting are an automatic
consequence of the model. We also argue that the transient and persistent
effects of drugs on time estimates can be interpreted as well within
MTS theory as in SET. Recent real-time physiological data conform
in surprising detail to the assumptions of the MTS habituation model.
Comparisons between the two views suggest a number of novel experiments.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Staddon1999
%A Staddon, JE
%A Higa, JJ
%C Department of Psychology: Experimental, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina 27708-0086, USA. staddon@psych.duke.edu
%D 1999
%J Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
%K timing
%N 2
%P 215--251
%T Time and memory: towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1999.71-215
%V 71
%X A popular view of interval timing in animals is that it is driven
by a discrete pacemaker-accumulator mechanism that yields a linear
scale for encoded time. But these mechanisms are fundamentally at
odds with the Weber law property of interval timing, and experiments
that support linear encoded time can be interpreted in other ways.
We argue that the dominant pacemaker-accumulator theory, scalar expectancy
theory (SET), fails to explain some basic properties of operant behavior
on interval-timing procedures and can only accommodate a number of
discrepancies by modifications and elaborations that raise questions
about the entire theory. We propose an alternative that is based
on principles of memory dynamics derived from the multiple-time-scale
(MTS) model of habituation. The MTS timing model can account for
data from a wide variety of time-related experiments: proportional
and Weber law temporal discrimination, transient as well as persistent
effects of reinforcement omission and reinforcement magnitude, bisection,
the discrimination of relative as well as absolute duration, and
the choose-short effect and its analogue in number-discrimination
experiments. Resemblances between timing and counting are an automatic
consequence of the model. We also argue that the transient and persistent
effects of drugs on time estimates can be interpreted as well within
MTS theory as in SET. Recent real-time physiological data conform
in surprising detail to the assumptions of the MTS habituation model.
Comparisons between the two views suggest a number of novel experiments.
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by a discrete pacemaker-accumulator mechanism that yields a linear
scale for encoded time. But these mechanisms are fundamentally at
odds with the Weber law property of interval timing, and experiments
that support linear encoded time can be interpreted in other ways.
We argue that the dominant pacemaker-accumulator theory, scalar expectancy
theory (SET), fails to explain some basic properties of operant behavior
on interval-timing procedures and can only accommodate a number of
discrepancies by modifications and elaborations that raise questions
about the entire theory. We propose an alternative that is based
on principles of memory dynamics derived from the multiple-time-scale
(MTS) model of habituation. The MTS timing model can account for
data from a wide variety of time-related experiments: proportional
and Weber law temporal discrimination, transient as well as persistent
effects of reinforcement omission and reinforcement magnitude, bisection,
the discrimination of relative as well as absolute duration, and
the choose-short effect and its analogue in number-discrimination
experiments. Resemblances between timing and counting are an automatic
consequence of the model. We also argue that the transient and persistent
effects of drugs on time estimates can be interpreted as well within
MTS theory as in SET. Recent real-time physiological data conform
in surprising detail to the assumptions of the MTS habituation model.
Comparisons between the two views suggest a number of novel experiments.},
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