Evidence of a time constant associated with movement patterns in six mammalian species
dc.contributor.author | Gerstner, Geoffrey E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Goldberg, Louis J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T18:02:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T18:02:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1994-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gerstner, Geoffrey E., Goldberg, Louis J. (1994/07)."Evidence of a time constant associated with movement patterns in six mammalian species." Ethology and Sociobiology 15(4): 181-205. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/31468> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X2B-46FGJ1W-1/2/d9b868cd21184e73de937f8a4146bca0 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/31468 | |
dc.description.abstract | Human psychophysical studies have provided evidence of a short duration time constant associated with perceptual tasks. This time constant is approximately 3 s in duration, and evidence suggests that it represents a central neural mechanism that functions to integrate "successive events into a Gestalt" in order to create a "subjective present." Recent studies have found a 3 s time constant in human and chimpanzee movement patterns, suggesting that a similar mechanism subserves both human perceptual and primate motor skills. These studies have focused exclusively on humans and chimpanzees; therefore, it is unclear whether this time constant represents a characteristic derived in the primate order or an ancestral characteristic found in many different mammalian orders. The current study looked for evidence of a 3 s time constant associated with movement patterns in six mammalian species representing three non-primate orders. The results showed that all six species' movement pattern event durations averaged about 3 s, and that there were no significant differences in the mean event durations among the species. Thus, the 3 s time constant originally found in human perceptual and primate motor skills is common among many mammalian orders and probably represents the operation of an ancestral neural mechanism. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Evidence of a time constant associated with movement patterns in six mammalian species | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | State University of New York, Buffalo, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/31468/1/0000390.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90013-2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Ethology and Sociobiology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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