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Page 1: Timing Periodic Timing –Cyclical behaviour controlled by 24 hour clock time or (circadian) Interval Timing –Stopwatch timing

Timing

• Periodic Timing– Cyclical behaviour controlled by 24 hour clock

time or (circadian)

• Interval Timing– Stopwatch timing

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4pm 8pm Midnight 4am 8am Mid-day

ACTIVITY

Light off Light on

Periodic Timing

Controlled by daily time or by light off?

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Roberts (1965)

• Activity cycle slightly less than 24 hours in constant dim light

• Restoring visual cues produces a gradual shift back to correct time.

• Entrainment: light acts as a zeitgeber (resets 24 hour clock)

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Bolles & Stokes

24 hour19 hour 29 hour

“Just Right”“Too Hot” “Too Cold”

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Bolles & Stokes (1965)

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4am 8am Mid-day 4pm 8pm Midnight

Food

Light Dark

Periodic Timing

11pm 4am 8am Mid-day 4pm 8pm

Food

Light Dark

Paris

New York

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Oscillators (Long Intervals)

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Example

RRR RRG GGGGGRGRGGRRRGGRGR

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432100

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20

30

40

50

60

Adapted from Roberts (1982)

Five-second blocks

Mea

n re

spon

ses

per

min

ute

Interval Timing

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Peak Procedure

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10

20

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40

50

60

Five-second blocks

Mean r

esp

onse

s per

min

ute

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One vs. Two Seconds

Absolute Difference = 1Weber’s Ratio = 1/2 = 0.5

Weber’s Law

Prediction: Very Easy

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Nineteen vs. Twenty Seconds

Absolute Difference = 1Weber’s Ratio = 19/20 = 0.05

Weber’s Law

Prediction: Very Hard

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Long or Short?

4 s

16 s

Choose Lever 1

Choose Lever 2

4 s

16 s10 s?

4 s

16 s8 s? 8 is twice 4

16 is twice 8

(16 + 4) * ½ = 10

Absolute

Ratio

((16)(4))1/2

=8

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Temporal Discrimination

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Absolute = (8+2) ½ = 5

Relative =((8)(2))1/2 = 4

BisectionTesting

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Scalar Timing

• What scale is used to compare times?– Error is relative to stopwatch time

• error is a constant proportion of the timed interval

• called scalar timing

– Timing curves are identical if data are plotted as a function of the “percentage” of time remaining

• Step 1: Normalize Y-axis (common maximum)

• Step 2: X axis expressed as proportion of timed interval

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Superposition

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Scalar Timing

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Learning-to-Time (LET)

BehaviorSequence: P M T L C

P = PeckM = MoveT = TurnL = LookC = Coo

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