title: Trial frequency effects in human temporal bisection: implications for theories of timing.
abstract: To contrast the classic version of the Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET) with the Behavioral Economic Model (BEM), we examined the effects of trial frequency on human temporal judgments. Mathematical analysis showed that, in a temporal bisection task, SET predicts that participants should show almost exclusive preference for the response associated with the most frequent duration, whereas BEM predicts that, even though participants will be biased, they will still display temporal control. Participants learned to emit one response (R[S]) after a 1.0-s stimulus and another (R[L]) after a 1.5-s stimulus. Then the effects of varying the frequencies of the 1.0-s and 1.5-s stimuli were assessed. Results were more consistent with BEM than with SET. Overall, this research illustrates how the impact of non-temporal factors on temporal discrimination may help us to contrast associative models such as BEM with cognitive models such as SET. Deciding between these two classes of models has important implications regarding the relations between associative learning and timing. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Associative and Temporal Learning.
authors.affiliation: Université Lille Nord de France, France; Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Electronic address: jeremie.jozefowiez@univ-lille3.fr.
authors.forename: Jeremie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jozefowiez
authors.affiliation: State University of New York at Binghamton, United States.
authors.forename: Cody W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Polack
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
authors.forename: Armando
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.affiliation: State University of New York at Binghamton, United States.
authors.forename: Ralph R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Associative decision rules; Behavioral economic model; Cognitive decision rules; Interval timing; Scalar expectancy theory; Temporal bisection
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