Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications

Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications is a one-of-a-kind, collective effort to present the most utilized and known methods on timing and time perception. Specifically, it covers methods and analysis on circadian timing, synchrony perception, reaction/response time, time estimation, and alternative methods for clinical/developmental research. The book includes experimental protocols, programming code, and sample results and the content ranges from very introductory to more advanced so as to cover the needs of both junior and senior researchers. We hope that this will be the first step in future efforts to document experimental methods and analysis both in a theoretical and in a practical manner. Contributors are: Patricia V. Agostino, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana, Fuat Balcı, Karin Bausenhart, Richard Block, Ivana L. Bussi, Carlos S. Caldart, Mariagrazia Capizzi, Xiaoqin Chen, Ángel Correa, Massimiliano Di Luca, Céline Z. Duval, Mark T. Elliott, Dagmar Fraser, David Freestone, Miguel A. García-Pérez, Anne Giersch, Simon Grondin, Nori Jacoby, Florian Klapproth, Franziska Kopp, Maria Kostaki, Laurence Lalanne, Giovanna Mioni, Trevor B. Penney, Patrick E. Poncelet, Patrick Simen, Ryan Stables, Rolf Ulrich, Argiro Vatakis, Dominic Ward, Alan M. Wing, Kieran Yarrow, and Dan Zakay.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Illustrations 1 Circadian Timing: From Genetics to Behavior  Patricia V. Agostino, Ivana L. Bussi and Carlos S. Caldart 2 Prospective and Retrospective Timing Processes: Theories, Methods, and Findings  Richard A. Block, Simon Grondin and Dan Zakay 3 Assessing Duration Discrimination: Psychophysical Methods and Psychometric Function Analysis  Karin M. Bausenhart, Massimiliano Di Luca and Rolf Ulrich 4 Methodological Issues in the Study of Prospective Timing  Giovanna Mioni 5 Duration Bisection: A User’s Guide  Trevor B. Penney and Xiaoqin Cheng 6 Temporal Decision-making: Common Procedures and Contemporary Approaches  David Freestone and Fuat Balcı 7 Towards a Process Model of Temporal Generalization  Florian Klapproth 8 Reaction Time Analysis for Interval Timing Research  Patrick Simen 9 Analysing Multi-person Timing in Music and Movement: Event Based Methods  Mark T. Elliott, Dominic Ward, Ryan Stables, Dagmar Fraser, Nori Jacoby and Alan M. Wing 10 Measuring Temporal Preparation  Mariagrazia Capizzi and Ángel Correa 11 Temporal Order and Synchrony Judgments: A Primer for Students  Maria Kostaki and Argiro Vatakis 12 Perceived Temporal Order and Simultaneity: Beyond Psychometric Functions  Miguel A. García-Pérez and Rocío Alcalá-Quintana 13 Collecting and Interpreting Judgments about Perceived Simultaneity: A Model-Fitting Tutorial  Kielan Yarrow 14 Using the Simon Effect in Simultaneity/Asynchrony Discrimination Tasks: Interest, Methods, and Limits  Anne Giersch, Patrick E. Poncelet, Céline Z. Duval and Laurence Lalanne 15 Tracking Time in the Infant Brain  Franziska Kopp

About the Author :
Argiro Vatakis, Ph.D. (2007, Oxford University) is a Researcher at the Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece. She is the co-founder of the Timing Research Forum and co-editor-in-chief of the journals Timing & Time Perception and Timing & Time Perception: Reviews. Fuat Balcı, Ph.D. (2007, Rutgers University) is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Koç University, Turkey. He has published extensive theoretical and empirical work on interval timing and decision making in humans and animals. Massimiliano Di Luca, Ph.D. (2006, Brown University) is a Research Scientist at Oculus and Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham. He has published journal and conference articles on computational models of multisensory integration, time perception, VR, and haptics. Ángel Correa, Ph.D. (2005, University of Granada) is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Ergonomics at Universidad de Granada, Spain. His research focuses on time perception, attention, and circadian rhythms in humans.