Scalar Expectancy - Human Mechanism

Human Mechanism

In 1993, Wearden claimed that human behavior exhibits appropriate scalar properties, as was indicated by in experiments of on internal production with concurrent chronometric counting. However, human timing behavior in undoubtedly more varied that animal timing behavior. A major factor responsible for this variability is attentional allocation.

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