On the replication of Kristofferson's (1980) quantal timing for duration discrimination: Some learning but no quanta and not much of a Weber constant

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1056-1072

  Matthews, William J ^a   Grondin, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Temporal discrimination; Temporal processing; Time quantum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862670108     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0282-3     Document Type: Article

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