Wearden J H
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Behav Processes. 1999 Apr;45(1-3):3-21. doi: 10.1016/s0376-6357(99)00006-6.
The article discusses three areas that appear neglected or underdeveloped in current treatments of scalar timing theory (SET). In particular, questions about where variance in the SET system comes from, and how memory and decision processes operate within SET are discussed. The article suggests a number of possible experiments with humans, some based on pilot work which is described, that may clarify all three areas to some degree. Methods derived from conventional studies of memory are suggested as providing techniques for investigating the operation of memory and decision processes within the SET model, both areas previously considered somewhat inaccessible. In general, the tripartite division of SET into clock, memory, and decision processes is advocated as a useful general framework for studying timing, including questions related to its neurobiological basis, whether or not data always conform to SET predictions, although more needs to be known about how all three parts of the SET system operate.
本文讨论了在当前标量计时理论（SET）的处理中似乎被忽视或未充分发展的三个领域。特别是，讨论了SET系统中的方差来自何处，以及记忆和决策过程在SET中如何运作的问题。本文提出了一些针对人类的可能实验，其中一些基于所描述的前期试验工作，这些实验可能在一定程度上阐明所有这三个领域。有人建议，从传统记忆研究中衍生出的方法可为研究SET模型中的记忆和决策过程的运作提供技术，这两个领域以前被认为在某种程度上难以触及。总体而言，主张将SET分为时钟、记忆和决策过程这三个部分，作为研究计时的一个有用的总体框架，包括与其神经生物学基础相关的问题，以及数据是否总是符合SET预测的问题，尽管对于SET系统的所有三个部分如何运作还需要了解更多。
