Timescale invariance and Weber's law in choice

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-238

  Jozefowiez, Jeremie ^a,b   Cerutti, D T ^a   Staddon, J E R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Interval timing; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

COLUMBA;

EID: 33746635661     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.3.229     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Catania, A. C. (1970). Reinforcement schedules and the psychophysical judgements: A study of some temporal properties of behavior. In W. N. Schoenfeld (Ed.), The theory of reinforcement schedules (pp. 1-42). New York: Appleton-Century-Croft.
2. Catania, A. C., & Reynolds, G. S. (1968). A quantitative analysis of responding maintained by interval schedules of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 327-383.
3. Cerutti, D. T., & Staddon, J. E. R. (2004a). Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: A test of the cognitive hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 45-57.
4. Cerutli, D. T., & Staddon, J. E. R. (2004b). Time and rate measures in choice transitions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81, 135-154.
5. Church, R. M. (2004). Temporal learning. In H. Pashler & C. R. Gallistel (Eds.), Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology (3rd ed.), Vol. 3: Learning, motivation and emotion (pp. 365-393). New York: Wiley.
6. Church, R. M., & Deluty, M. Z. (1977). Bisection of temporal intervals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 3, 216-228.
7. Crystal, J. D. (1999). Systematic nonlinearities in the perception of temporal intervals. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Animal Behavior Processes, 25, 3-17.
8. Crystal, J. D. (2001). Nonlinear time perception. Behavioral Processes, 55, 35-49.
9. Crystal, J. D. (2002). Timing inter-reward intervals. Learning and Motivation, 33, 311-326.
10. Fantino, E. (1969). Choice and rate of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 723-730.
11. Fetterman, J. G., & Killeen, P. R. (1995). Categorical scaling of time: Implications for clock-counter models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 21, 43-63.
12. Gallistel, C. R., & Gibbon, J. (2000). Time, rate and conditioning. Psychological Review, 107, 289-344.
13. Gallistel, C. R., King, A., & McDonald, R. (2004). Sources of variability and systematic error in mouse timing behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 3-16.
14. Gibbon, J. (1977). Scalar expectancy theory and Weber's law in animal timing. Psychological Review, 84, 279-325.
15. Gibbon, J., & Church, R. (1981). Time left: Linear versus logarithmic subjective time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 3-38.
16. Gibbon, J., Church, R. M., & Meek, W. H. (1984). Scalar timing in memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 423, 52-77.
17. Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D. T., & Staddon, J. E. R. (2005). Timing in choice experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 213-225.
18. Mattel, M. S., King, R. K., & Meek, W. H. (2004). Differential modulation of clock speed by the administration of intermittent versus continuous cocaine. Behavioral Neurosciences, 118, 150-156.
19. Mattel, M. S., & Meek, W. H. (1999). Reinforcement-induced within-trial resetting of an internal clock. Behavioral Processes, 45, 159-172.
20. Roberts, S. (1981). Isolation of an internal clock. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 7, 242-268.
21. Shull, R. L., & Pliskoff, S. S. (1967). Changeover delay and concurrent schedules: Some effects on relative performance measures. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 10, 517-527.
22. Staddon, J. E. R. (2005). Interval timing: A memory, not a clock. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 312-314.
23. Staddon, J. E. R., & Cerutti, D. T. (2003). Operant conditioning. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 115-144.
24. Stubbs, A. (1968). The discrimination of stimulus duration by pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 223-238.