The Psychology of Time Perception

• Main Author: Wearden, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Cognitive psychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Self and Identity.; Cognitive Psychology.

John Wearden is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Keele University, UK. He has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters, mostly on time perception in humans and animals.  How do people perceive time? This book presents a wealth of contemporary and classical research, including some of the...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Overview
• Chapter 2. A Brief History of Time Perception
• Chapter 3. SET and Human Timing
• Chapter 4. Theoretical Models of Temporal Generalization and Bisection in Humans
• Chapter 5. Cognitive Processes, Emotion and Timing
• Chapter 6. Retrospective Timing and Passage of Time Judgments
• Chapter 7. Time Perception in Children
• Chapter 8. Timing and Ageing
• Chapter 9. Animal Timing
• Chapter 10. Some Commonly-Used Methods in Time Perception Research.