Gibbon J, Church R M
Department of Biopsychology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032.
Cognition. 1990 Nov;37(1-2):23-54. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(90)90017-e.
Memory representation for time was studied in two settings. First, an analysis of timing in a laboratory analog of a foraging situation revealed that departure times from a patchy resource followed a Weber Law-like property implied by scalar timing. A trial-by-trial analysis was then pursued in a similar but more structured experimental paradigm, the Peak procedure. Study of covariance structures in the data implicated scalar variance in the memory for time as well as in the decision process, but the correlation pattern ruled out multiple access to memory within a trial.
在两种情境下研究了时间的记忆表征。首先，对觅食情境的实验室模拟中的计时分析表明，从零散资源处离开的时间遵循标量计时所隐含的类似韦伯定律的特性。然后，在一个类似但更具结构化的实验范式——峰值程序中进行了逐次试验分析。对数据协方差结构的研究表明，时间记忆以及决策过程中存在标量方差，但相关模式排除了在一次试验中对记忆的多次访问。
