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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2019

Weber's Law and the Scalar Property of Timing: A Test of Canine Timing.

Jessica H Cliff, Surrey M K Jackson, James S McEwan, Lewis A Bizo

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Jessica H CliffSchool of Psychology, The University of Waikato/Te Whare Whãnanga o Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. jesskelmere@hotmail.co.nz.
Surrey M K JacksonSchool of Psychology, The University of Waikato/Te Whare Whãnanga o Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. surreyjackson@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1690-3792
James S McEwanSchool of Psychology, The University of Waikato/Te Whare Whãnanga o Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. James@behavioursolutions.nz.
Lewis A BizoSchool of Psychology, The University of Waikato/Te Whare Whãnanga o Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. Lbizo@une.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-6030-6149

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Abstract

Domestic dogs completed a temporal bisection procedure that required a response to one lever following a light stimulus of short duration and to another lever following a light stimulus of a longer duration. The short and long durations across the four conditions were (0.5-2.0 s, 1.0-4.0 s, 2.0-8.0 s, and 4.0-16.0 s). Durations that were intermediate, the training durations, and the training durations, were presented during generalization tests. The dogs bisected the intervals near the geometric mean of the short and long-stimulus pair. Weber fractions were not constant when plotted as a function of time: A U-shaped function described them. These results replicate the findings of previous research reporting points of subjective equality falling close to the geometric mean and also confirm recent reports of systematic departures from Weber's law.

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comparative cognitiondogtemporal bisectiontime perceptionWeber’s law

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PMID31615074
PMCPMC6826837

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