'Subjective lengthening' during repeated testing of a simple temporal discrimination

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-38

  Wearden, J H ^a   Pilkington, Richard ^a   Carter, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal measures; Humans; Memory for duration; Subjective shortening; Temporal discrimination; Temporal generalization

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032893730     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00059-X     Document Type: Article

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