On experimental predictions from a model for a neural mechanism of internal timer

The authors have recently proposed a model for a neural mechanism of internal timer. Here we report on predictions, which the model provides for psychological experiment of interval timing by the method of reproduction. We consider the ratio " /m with m and being the mean and the kth central moment of the lengths of intervals reproduced by a subject. The model predicts that for arbitrary k, is constant for di!erent lengths of presented intervals; the value of for k'2 is uniquely determined by the experimentally observed value of according to the formulae given by the model. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.