VAZQUEZ-LIRA, Ramsés    ORDUNA, Vladimir. Human Timing in the peak procedure with GAPS. []. , 18, 1, pp.57-66. ISSN 0121-4381.

Several procedures used in the study of animal learning have been adapted for human research; specifically, the fixed interval schedule, temporal bisection, temporal generalization, and the peak procedure, originally used in research on animal timing, have also been used in humans, providing important insights for understanding human behavior. This paper reports the adaptation to humans of the peak procedure with gaps, which was used in the past decades to elucidate attentional and mnemonic aspects of the timing process. It was found that the 35 participants (22.3 ± 3.1 years old) tend to stop their timing during the gap, keeping a representation of the pre-gap duration in working memory; these results suggest that the rate of decay of temporal memory in humans is lower than in any other species that have been evaluated in this procedure.

: Gap; Scalar Expectancy theory; peak procedure; timing; humans.

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