This research shows the importance of perceiving rhythmic regularities in the temporal structure of the environment for adjusting precisely actions to events duration in dynamic process control. Rather than using metric durations, it seems that subjects construct approximate knowledge about typical durations of events. The temporal representation guiding behavior seems to be built on the basis of a partial ordering of temporal extensions.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
BrehmerB. (1992). Dynamic decision making: human control of complex systems. Acta Psychologica, 81, 211–241.
2.
BurtC. D. B. (1993). The effect of actual event duration and event memory on the reconstruction of duration information. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 63–73.
3.
JonesM. R.BoltzM. (1989). Dynamic attending and response to time. Psychological Review, 96(3), 459–491.
