title: Temporal contiguity and contingency judgments: a Pavlovian analogue.
abstract: The two experiments reported examine the role of temporal contiguity on judgments of contingency in a human analogue of the Pavlovian task. The data show that the effect of the actual delay on contingency judgment depends on the observer's expectation regarding the delay. For a fixed contingency between the cue and the outcome, ratings of the contingency are higher when the actual delay is congruent with the observer's expectation than when it is incongruent. We argue that our data can be understood within the context of the temporal coding hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1. allan@mcmaster.ca
authors.forename: Lorraine G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Allan
authors.forename: Jason M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tangen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Taral
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003867:Depth Perception; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009039:Motion Perception; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011336:Probability; D011340:Problem Solving; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012984:Software; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology