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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”.

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.