ABSTRACT
The problem we address here involves the isolation of some determinants of attention. A major thesis we bring to this task is that attending is a dynamic activity that is partially detennined by the time dimension. This thesis led us to study people's judgments about temporal patterns where time was a variable that contributed to pattern structure. And it also led us to seek new ways to describe the way in which time influences attending and hence judgments about patterns. In particular, we were interested in the ways in which conventional multidimension scaling procedures, which are putatively based upon spatial models, could be adapted to reflect a person's reliance on the time dimension.
