title: Finding time.
abstract: We understand time through our models of it. These are typically models of our physical chronometers, which we then project into our subjects. A few of these models of the nature of time and its effects on the behavior of organisms are reviewed. New models, such as thermodynamics and spectral decomposition, are recommended for the potential insights that they afford. In all cases, associations are essential features of timing. To make them, time must be discretized by stimuli such as hours, minutes, conditioned stimuli, trials, and contexts in general. Any one association is seldom completely dominant, but rather shares control through proximity in a multidimensional space, important dimensions of which may include physical space and time as rendered by Fourier transforms.
authors: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 1104, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, United States. Electronic address: Killeen@asu.edu.
authors: Peter R
authors: PR
authors: Killeen
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013995:Time; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Boltzmann; Caesar; Fourier; Minkowski; Newton; Spectra; Temporal lenses; Weber's law