Time, Action and Cognition Towards Bridging the Gap

This volume is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Time, Action and Cognition. which was held in Saint-Malo, France, in October 1991. The theme - time in action and cognition of time - was sparked by growing awareness in informal meetings between mostly French-speaking time psychologists of the need to bring together time specialists in the areas of development, motor behavior, attention, memory and representations. The workshop was designed to be a forum where different theoretical points of view and a variety of empirical approaches could be presented and discussed. Time psychologists tended to draw conclusions restricted to their specific fields of interest. From our own experience, we felt that addressing a common issue - possible relationships between time in action and representations of time - could lead to a more comprehensive approach. We are endebted to NATO for allowing us to bring this idea to fruition. We take this opportunity as well to express our thanks to Cognisciences ( Cognisud section) -- an active interdisciplinary research organization - for its financial backing and the CNRS for its scientific support.

Questions on the interconnections between enacted and represented time.- Introduction: Time concepts and adaptation: Developmental approaches.- Review Paper: The development of the concept of time in children: An integrative model.- The development of temporally-based intersensory perception in human infants.- Changes in temporal regulation of behavior in young children: From action to Representation.- The development of a diachronic perspective in children.- The development of children’s representations of temporal structure.- Short Communication: Children’s understanding of the temporal relationship before/after.- Short Communication: Time, kinematic reasoning and cognitive interaction.- Short Communication: Time and inference rules in the child, adolescent and adult.- Introduction: Towards an understanding of subjective judgments of time.- Review Paper: Prospective and retrospective judgments of time: A neurobehavioral analysis.- On prospective time estimation, temporal relevance and temporal uncertainty.- Dividing attention between temporal and nontemporal tasks: A Performance perating Characteristic -POC- analysis.- Attention, multiple timing, and psychophysical scaling of temporal judgments.- Prospective and retrospective duration judgment: The role of information rocessing and memory.- The incidental learning and remembering of event durations.- Time memory and time perception.- short Communication: Testing models of time estimation.- Short Communication: Time estimation and attentional sharing.- Introduction; Models of timing-with-a-timer.- The internal clock revisited.- Counting the minutes.- Oscillators, predictions and time.- A mechanism for timing conditioned responses.- Introduction: Response timing and synchronization.- Review Paper: Determinants oftiming in serial movements.- Can duration he a relevant dimension of motor programs?.- The error correction model for the tracking of a random metronome: Statistical properties and an empirical test.- Tracking simple rhythms: On-beat versus off-beat performance.- Introduction: Representing time.- Review Paper: Dynamic representations guiding adaptive behavior.- Duration experience under conditions of suspense in films.- Words for time.- Verisimilar and metaphorical representations of time.- The short life of metric time.- Conclusion: From action to cognition: Bridging the gap?.- Invited Address: From time lost to time regained.- Author Index.