ABSTRACT
The study of time perception has a long and varied history in psychology. Research on human time perception has used a diverse group of procedures and independent variables including the effects of different stimuli on time judgments, the psychophysics of time, the development of time perception, the role of cognitive and emotional factors on the experience of time, judgments of “normal” and “abnormal” subjects, the effects of drugs, judgments of simultaniety and succession, and the perception of rhythm (see for example reviews by Boring, 1942; Doob, 1971; Fraisse, 1963, 1978, 1984; Frankenhauser, 1959; Ornstein, 1969; Woodrow, 1951; and the bibliography by Eisler, Linde, Throeng, Lazar, Eisler, & Hellstrom, 1980). Although less well studied, research on animals’ time perception has almost as long a history as the human time perception work. Discussions of the role of temporal variables in learning go back at least to Pavlov (1927), with references to the role of temporal factors appearing periodically in some of the older animal learning literature (e.g., Anderson, 1932; Cowles & Finan, 1941; Sams & Tolman, 1935; Skinner, 1938).
