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      Weber's law and the scalar property of timing: A test of canine timing

      Cliff, Jessica Helen; Jackson, Surrey M.K.; McEwan, James S.A.; Bizo, Lewis A.
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      Cliff, J. H., Jackson, S. M. K., McEwan, J. S. A., & Bizo, L. A. (2019). Weber’s law and the scalar property of timing: A test of canine timing. Animals, 9(10), 801. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100801
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13369
      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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      2019
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      Journal Article
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      MDPI
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      © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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