Time, action, and cognition : towards bridging the gap ; [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Time, Action and Cognition, St. Malo, France, 22-25 October 1981

"This volume is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Time, Action and Cognition. which was held in Saint-Malo, France, in October 1991. The theme - time in action and cognition of time - was sparked by growing awareness in informal meetings between mostly French-speaking time psychologists of the need to bring together time specialists in the areas of development, motor behavior, attention, memory and representations. The workshop was designed to be a forum where different theoretical points of view and a variety of empirical approaches could be presented and discussed. Time psychologists tended to draw conclusions restricted to their specific fields of interest. From our own experience, we felt that addressing a common issue - possible relationships between time in action and representations of time - could lead to a more comprehensive approach. We are endebted to NATO for allowing us to bring this idea to fruition. We take this opportunity as well to express our thanks to Cognisciences (Cognisud section) -- an active interdisciplinary research organization - for its financial backing and the CNRS for its scientific support"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Questions on the Interconnections between Enacted and Represented Time....Pages 3-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Introduction Time Concepts and Adaptation: Developmental Approaches....Pages 9-12 The Development of the Concept of Time in Children: An Integrative Model....Pages 13-32 The Development of Temporally-Based Intersensory Perception in Human Infants....Pages 33-43 Changes in Temporal Regulation of Behavior in Young Children : From Action to Representation....Pages 45-53 The Development of a Diachronic Perspective in Children....Pages 55-65 The Development of Children’s Representations of Temporal Structure....Pages 67-75 Children’s Understanding of the Temporal Relationship Before/After (Short communication)....Pages 77-80 Time, Kinematic Reasoning and Cognitive Interaction (Short communication)....Pages 81-84 Time and Inference Rules in the Child, Adolescent and Adult (short communication)....Pages 85-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Introduction Towards an Understanding of Subjective Judgments of Time....Pages 91-95 Prospective and Retrospective Judgments of Time: A Neurobehavioral Analysis....Pages 97-108 On Prospective Time Estimation, Temporal Relevance and Temporal Uncertainty....Pages 109-117 Dividing Attention between Temporal and Nontemporal Tasks: A Performance Operating Characteristic -POC- Analysis....Pages 119-128 Attention, Multiple Timing, and Psychophysical Scaling of Temporal Judgments....Pages 129-140 Prospective and Retrospective Duration Judgment: The Role of Information Processing and Memory....Pages 141-152 The Incidental Learning and Remembering of Event Durations....Pages 153-163 Time Memory and Time Perception....Pages 165-172 Testing Models of Time Estimation (short communication)....Pages 173-176 Time Estimation and Attentional Sharing (short communication)....Pages 177-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Introduction Models of Timing-with-a-Timer....Pages 183-189 The Internal Clock Revisited....Pages 191-202 Counting the Minutes....Pages 203-214 Oscillators, Predictions and Time....Pages 215-227 A Mechanism for Timing Conditioned Responses....Pages 229-238 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Introduction Response Timing and Synchronization....Pages 241-246 Determinants of Timing in Serial Movements....Pages 247-261 Can Duration be a Relevant Dimension of Motor Programs?....Pages 263-273 The Error Correction Model for the Tracking of a Random Metronome: Statistical Properties and an Empirical Test....Pages 275-286 Tracking Simple Rhythms: On-Beat Versus Off-Beat Performance....Pages 287-299 Front Matter....Pages 301-301 Introduction Representing Time....Pages 303-307 Dynamic Representations Guiding Adaptive Behavior....Pages 309-323 Duration Experience under Conditions of Suspense in Films....Pages 325-336 Words for Time....Pages 337-348 Verisimilar and Metaphorical Representations of Time....Pages 349-360 The Short Life of Metric Time....Pages 361-369 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 From Action to Cognition: Bridging the Gap?....Pages 373-382 Front Matter....Pages 383-383 From Time Lost to Time Regained....Pages 385-392 Back Matter....Pages 393-407 The number of models characterizing temporal information processing, from estimation and production of brief durations up to complex symbolizations and representations of time, have increased dramatically in recent years. What emerges as well is that many hypotheses put forward to account for motor behavior, attention and memory assign a crucial explanatory role to temporal parameters. This volume, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in France in October 1991, enhances the theoretical ties between fields. It brings together international specialists who offer both experimental evidence and theoretical views on complementary topics. Time, Action and Cognition thus helps to identify common themes and critical issues in motor timing, perception, estimation and representation of time. It places special emphasis on temporal mechanisms, and traces connecting pathways between early temporal regulations of action and sophisticated adult concepts of time. In opening the way to a more unified approach, it defines new directions for future research