Mapping the Origins of Time: Scalar Errors in Infant Time Estimation

Autor/inn/en	Addyman, Caspar; Rocha, Sinead; Mareschal, Denis
Titel	Mapping the Origins of Time: Scalar Errors in Infant Time Estimation
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 8, S.2030-2035 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0037108
Schlagwörter	Time; Infants; Eye Movements; Age Differences; Toddlers; Intervals; Error Patterns; Computation; Visual Stimuli; Responses; Developmental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeit; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Augenbewegung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Infants; Fehlertyp; Entwicklungspsychologie
Abstract	Time is central to any understanding of the world. In adults, estimation errors grow linearly with the length of the interval, much faster than would be expected of a clock-like mechanism. Here we present the first direct demonstration that this is also true in human infants. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we examined 4-, 6-, 10-, and 14-month-olds' responses to the omission of a recurring target, on either a 3- or 5-s cycle. At all ages (a) both fixation and pupil dilation measures were time locked to the periodicity of the test interval, and (b) estimation errors grew linearly with the length of the interval, suggesting that trademark interval timing is in place from 4 months. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01