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Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951 (2024)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (in press). Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.4208

This note discusses the apparently unpublished correspondence between B. F. Skinner and the Belgian psychologist Albert Michotte, preceding Skinner's visit to the Thirteenth International Congress of Psychology in Stockholm in 1951. Skinner's letters... Read More about Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951.

The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: Immediate Memory, Rhythmical Grouping, and the ‘Psychological Present’ (2024)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2024). The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: Immediate Memory, Rhythmical Grouping, and the ‘Psychological Present’. Timing and Time Perception, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10111

This article discusses two of the earliest works of Paul Fraisse, from 1937 and 1944, on the subject of ‘immediate memory’. Adults or children reproduced the number of sounds presented, with the number and the spacing between them varying. Performanc... Read More about The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: Immediate Memory, Rhythmical Grouping, and the ‘Psychological Present’.

Treisman (1963): An Appreciation (2023)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2023). Treisman (1963): An Appreciation. Timing and Time Perception, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10100

This article discusses the content of Michel Treisman’s 1963 monograph presenting a “model of the time-keeping mechanism”. Data from the seven experiments reported in the monograph are first discussed, then an attempt is made to explain the structure... Read More about Treisman (1963): An Appreciation.

Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency” (2023)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2024). Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency”. Timing and Time Perception, 12(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10082

This article discusses material in a 1909 monograph, The Inaccuracy of Movement with Special Reference to Constant Errors, by H. L. Hollingworth, which is mostly concerned with demonstrating and accounting for what we would now call Vierordt’s Law, f... Read More about Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency”.

Michel Treisman (1929–2023): A Short Appreciation of his Contributions to the Study of Time Perception (2023)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2023). Michel Treisman (1929–2023): A Short Appreciation of his Contributions to the Study of Time Perception. Timing and Time Perception, 12(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-20230002

Speed and Consolidation: Warren Meck’s Early Ideas about Temporal Reference Memory and some Later Developments (2022)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H., & Jones, L. A. (2022). Speed and Consolidation: Warren Meck’s Early Ideas about Temporal Reference Memory and some Later Developments. Timing and Time Perception, 11(1-4), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10049

This article is initially focussed on Warren Meck’s early work on temporal reference memory, in particular the idea that some drug manipulations affect ‘memory storage speed’. Meck’s original notion had links to an earlier literature, not usually rel... Read More about Speed and Consolidation: Warren Meck’s Early Ideas about Temporal Reference Memory and some Later Developments.