Can we use verbal estimation to dissect the internal clock? Differentiating the effects of pacemaker rate, switch latencies, and judgment processes

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-74

  Matthews, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internal clock; Pacemaker accumulator; Time perception; Verbal estimation

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PACEMAKER; VERBAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650511976     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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