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On the content of learning in interval timing: representations or associations?
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier Science BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Models of timing differ on two fundamental issues, the form of the representation and the content of learning. First, regarding the representation of time some models assume a linear encoding, others a logarithmic encoding. Second, regarding the content of learning cognitive models assume that the animal learns explicit representations of the intervals relevant to the task and that their behavior is based on a comparison of those representations, whereas associative models assume that the animal learns associations between its representations of time and responding, which then drive performance. In this paper, we show that some key empirical findings (timescale invariant psychometric curves, bisection point at the geometric mean of the trained durations in the bisection procedure, and location of the indifference point in the time-left procedure) seem to make these two issues interdependent. That is, cognitive models seem to entail a linear representation of time, and at least a certain class of associative models seem to entail a log representation of time. These interdependencies suggest new ways to compare and contrast timing models.<br />Jeremie Jozefowiez and Armando Machado acknowledge support from the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia as well as from the European project COST ISCH Action TD0904 "Time in Mental activity" (www.timely-cost.eu).<br />info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
- Subjects :
- Linear representation
Signal Detection, Psychological
Time Factors
Logarithm
Computer science
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Associative models
Social Sciences
Indifference point
Models, Psychological
Log timing
050105 experimental psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience
Statistics
Conditioning, Psychological
Animals
Learning
Cognitive models
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Invariant (mathematics)
Associative property
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Science & Technology
05 social sciences
Association Learning
Cognition
General Medicine
Interval timing
Interdependence
Linear timing
Animal Science and Zoology
Cognitive psychology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eeb8a3f467c301ea67cee8907528803b