To determine applicability of a memory-storage model of temporal judgment to discrimination of durations, a single dark dot was presented twice in each trial for the task of judging whether the second duration was longer or shorter than the first duration. The tendency to judge the second duration to be longer than the first one increased as a function of the interval separating the durations only when the interval varied from trial to trial. The over-all proportion of “longer” responses was not appreciably greater than the proportion of “shorter” responses.
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