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Time and Information Processing: Is Clock Time The Same As Brain Time?

Luke Jones

In: British Psychology Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Meeting; 06 Sep 2011-08 Sep 2011; Keele University. 2011.

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Time and Information Processing: Is Clock Time the Same as Brain Time?Dr Luke A. Jones, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UKThe precision and control of human interval timing has lead to the development of theories that have proposed that human posses an internal clock, of a pacemaker-accumulator type. The most successful and developed of these models is Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET, Gibbon, 1977). Further evidence for the existence of this internal clock has been the discovery of experimental techniques for altering its speed; repetitive stimulation (typically in the form of auditory click trains) have been found to reliably speed it up (e.g. Penton-Voak et al., 1997). Recent work has found that this same technique can also speed up other cognitive processes; simple reaction time, mental calculation and memory encoding (Jones et al., 2011). Additionally it has been found that repetitive stimulation can also affect other magnitude estimations (line length and number (Droit-Volet et al., 2010) and velocity (Makin et al., under revision). In this talk I will discuss these findings and others in the literature that suggest an apparent link between our perception of time and the rate at which we process information.Gibbon, J. (1977). Scalar expectancy theory and Weber’s law in animal timing. Psychological Review. 84(3), 279-325Penton-Voak, I.S., Edwards, H., Percival, A., & Wearden, J.H. (1996). Speeding up an internal clock in humans? Effects of click trains on subjective duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 307-320.Jones, L.A., Allely, C.S., Wearden, J.H. (2011). Click trains and the rate ofinformation processing; Does "speeding up" subjective time make other psychological processes run faster? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(2), 363-380Droit-Volet, S. (2010) Speeding up a master clock common to time, number and length ? Behavioural Processes, 85, 126-134 Makin, A.D.J., Poliakoff, E., Dillon, J., Perrin, A., Mullett, T. & Jones, L.A.(under revision) The interaction between duration, velocity and repetitive stimulation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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British Psychology Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Meeting
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Keele University
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2011-09-06
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2011-09-08
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Time and Information Processing: Is Clock Time the Same as Brain Time?Dr Luke A. Jones, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UKThe precision and control of human interval timing has lead to the development of theories that have proposed that human posses an internal clock, of a pacemaker-accumulator type. The most successful and developed of these models is Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET, Gibbon, 1977). Further evidence for the existence of this internal clock has been the discovery of experimental techniques for altering its speed; repetitive stimulation (typically in the form of auditory click trains) have been found to reliably speed it up (e.g. Penton-Voak et al., 1997). Recent work has found that this same technique can also speed up other cognitive processes; simple reaction time, mental calculation and memory encoding (Jones et al., 2011). Additionally it has been found that repetitive stimulation can also affect other magnitude estimations (line length and number (Droit-Volet et al., 2010) and velocity (Makin et al., under revision). In this talk I will discuss these findings and others in the literature that suggest an apparent link between our perception of time and the rate at which we process information.Gibbon, J. (1977). Scalar expectancy theory and Weber’s law in animal timing. Psychological Review. 84(3), 279-325Penton-Voak, I.S., Edwards, H., Percival, A., & Wearden, J.H. (1996). Speeding up an internal clock in humans? Effects of click trains on subjective duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 307-320.Jones, L.A., Allely, C.S., Wearden, J.H. (2011). Click trains and the rate ofinformation processing; Does "speeding up" subjective time make other psychological processes run faster? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(2), 363-380Droit-Volet, S. (2010) Speeding up a master clock common to time, number and length ? Behavioural Processes, 85, 126-134 Makin, A.D.J., Poliakoff, E., Dillon, J., Perrin, A., Mullett, T. & Jones, L.A.(under revision) The interaction between duration, velocity and repetitive stimulation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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