Timing Competence and Timing Performance: A Cross‐Species Approach

Richelle, Marc; Lejeune, Helga

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb23435.x

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“…Skinner posited that schedules of reinforcement could ''transcend'' or ''erase'' species-specific differences and yield performance (such as cumulative records on FI schedules) that did not differ in essentials from one species to another. Although species differences in the temporal control of behavior do occur (e.g., Lejeune & Wearden, 1991;Lowe & Harzem, 1977), some aspects of timing do seem to have cross-species generality, supporting Skinner's position, and such generality even may extend to humans (e.g., Lejeune, 1990;Richelle, 1968;Richelle & Lejeune, 1984;Richelle, Lejeune, Perikel, & Fery, 1985;Wearden, 1991).…”

Section: The Evolution Of Operant Methods: 1950s To the Presentmentioning

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About Skinner and Time: Behavior‐analytic Contributions to Research on Animal Timing

Lejeune

Richelle

Wearden

2006

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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The article discusses two important influences of B. F. Skinner, and later workers in the behavioranalytic tradition, on the study of animal timing. The first influence is methodological, and is traced from the invention of schedules imposing temporal constraints or periodicities on animals in The Behavior of Organisms, through the rate differentiation procedures of Schedules of Reinforcement, to modern temporal psychophysics in animals. The second influence has been the development of accounts of animal timing that have tried to avoid reference to internal processes of a cognitive sort, in particular internal clock mechanisms. Skinner's early discussion of temporal control is first reviewed, and then three recent theories- Killeen & Fetterman's (1988)

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Section: The Evolution Of Operant Methods: 1950s To the Presentmentioning

confidence: 86%

About Skinner and Time: Behavior‐analytic Contributions to Research on Animal Timing

Lejeune

Richelle

Wearden

2006

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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“…Table 2. (Continued) especially attractive option in aging research due to their relatively short lifespans and functional homology to the human brain (Richelle & Lejeune, 1984). Two common procedures used in nonhuman timing are the fixed interval (FI) and peak interval (PI) procedures.…”

Section: Nonhuman Timingmentioning

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Age-Related Changes in Human and Nonhuman Timing

Church

2017

Timing &Amp; Time Perception

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The capacity for timed behavior is ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, making time perception an ideal topic of comparative research across human and nonhuman subjects. One of the many consequences of normal aging is a systematic decline in timing ability, often accompanied by a host of behavioral and biochemical changes in the brain. In this review, we describe some of these behavioral and biochemical changes in human and nonhuman subjects. Given the involvement of timing in higher-order cognitive processing, age-related changes in timing ability can act as a marker for cognitive decline in older adults. Finally, we offer a comparison between human and nonhuman timing through the perspective of Alzheimer’s disease. Taken together, we suggest that understanding timing functions and dysfunctions can improve theoretical accounts of cognitive aging and time perception, and the use of nonhuman subjects constitutes an integral part of this process.

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“…Although the experiment presented here did not explicitly address the mechanistic basis of discounting decisions, one possible explanation for the differences in tamarin and marmoset discounting levels is that the two species differ in either their ability to time intervals or in the strength of their timing preferences (for a reviews of cross-species timing experiments, see Gibbon et al, 1984 andRichelle andLejeune, 1984). Few studies have explicitly studied timing abilities in primates, and none have compared across two or more species using the same method.…”

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