On the Experience of Time

by Ornstein, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780140801330
• ISBN10: 0140801332
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

How do we experience time? What do we use to experience it? In a series of remarkable experiments, Robert Ornstein shows that it is difficult to maintain an "inner clock" explanation of the experience of time & postulates a cognitive, information-processing approach. This approach alone makes sense out of the very different data of the experience of time & in particular of the experience of duration-the lengthening of duration under LSD, for example, or the effects of an experience felt to be a success rather than a failure, time in sensory deprivation, the time-order effect, or the influence of the administration of a sedative or stimulant drug. Contents: The Problem of Temporal Experience. The "Sensory Process" Metaphor. The "Storage Size" Metaphor. Four Studies of the Stimulus Determinants of Duration Experience. Two Studies of Coding Processes & Duration Experience. Three Studies of Storage Size. Summary, Conclusion, & Some Speculation on Future Directions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 13
The Probom of Temporal Experience	p. 15
The 'sensory Process' Metaphor	p. 25
The 'storage Size' Metaphor	p. 37
Four Studies of the Stimulus Determinants of Duration Experience	p. 53
Two Studies of Coding Processes and Duration Experience	p. 73
Three Studies of Storage Size	p. 83
Summary, Conclusion and Some Speculation on Future Directions	p. 101
References	p. 116
Index	p. 122
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