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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bradshaw, C. M
• Szabadi, E

Titel

Time and behaviour : psychological and neurobehavioural analyses [electronic resource]

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1. Dynamic models of rapid temporal control in animals; Chapter 2. Timing and temporal search; Chapter 3. Time's causes; Chapter 4. Application of a mode-control model of temporal integration to counting and timing behaviour; Chapter 5. Does a common mechanism account for timing and counting phenomena in the pigeon?; Chapter 6. Pigeons' coding of event duration in delayed matching-to-sample; Chapter 7. Ordinal, phase, and interval timing; Chapter 8. Cooperation, conflict and compromise between circadian and interval clocks in pigeons
• Chapter 9. Factors influencing long-term time estimation in humansChapter 10. How time flies: Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing; Chapter 11. On the human neuropsychology of timing of simple repetitive movements; Chapter 12. 5-hydroxytryptamine and interval timing; Index
• That time is both a dimension of behaviour and a ubiquitous controlling variable in the lives of all living things has been well recognized for many years. The last decade has seen a burgeoning of interest in the quantitative analysis of timing behaviour, and progress during the last five or six years has been particularly impressive, with the publication of several major new theoretical contributions. There has also been considerable progress in behavioural methodology during the past decade. In the area of reinforcement schedules, for example, the venerable interresponse-time schedu
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