Wearden J H
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, England.
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 1995 Oct;21(4):318-30. doi: 10.1037//0097-7403.21.4.318.
Normal human adults performed on an analogue of the categorical timing procedure, used by J.G. Fetterman and P.P. Killeen (1995) with pigeons, by classifying a set of 18 or 24 tone durations in 3 or 4 categories. Use of the different categories was an orderly function of stimulus duration in all cases, and data showed a close approximation to superposition, indicating conformity to scalar timing. Both these results were similar to data from pigeons. A model using memory representations of the category-range geometric means with scalar variance fitted data well in nearly all respects. The results emphasize human and animal similarities in categorical timing and conformity of human behavior to scalar timing principles.
正常成年人执行了一种类似于J.G.费特曼和P.P.基林（1995年）用于鸽子的分类计时程序，通过将一组18个或24个音调持续时间分为3类或4类。在所有情况下，不同类别的使用都是刺激持续时间的有序函数，数据显示与叠加非常接近，表明符合标量计时。这两个结果都与鸽子的数据相似。一个使用具有标量方差的类别范围几何平均值的记忆表征的模型在几乎所有方面都很好地拟合了数据。这些结果强调了人类和动物在分类计时方面的相似性以及人类行为对标量计时原则的符合程度。
