ABSTRACT
Interval timing behavior in children has also been tested with the temporal generalization procedure. Temporal sensitivity in temporal bisection is lower in younger children, and the developmental version of the scalar timing model suggests that this is due to the decrease with increasing age in the variability of the long-term memory representation of the standard durations, and the probability of random responding. Beyond age differences in temporal performance, the bisection and generalization methods used in animals and human adults produced orderly data from all children. In the training phase, the children were presented with a white circle for 5 sec, followed immediately by a blue circle, which was the stimulus to be timed. The greater sensitivity to duration for auditory than for visual stimuli in young children suggests a sort of primacy of audition over vision in the processing of temporal information.
