Type A and Type B Effects, Time-Order Error and Weber's Law in Human Timing – Simulations and Synthesis

This article presents a computational approach to the theoretical integration of the psychophysical phenomena in human timing. While there are many useful models of human timing, analyses are scarce on how these models explain the relationships between several phenomena at the same time. The presented research is an attempt to primarily explain and integrate the time-order error with the Type A and Type B phenomena. The final result of this work also encompasses Weber's law property and relates it to the aforementioned order-related effects. The theoretical framework used is the Clock-Counter Timing Network (CCTN), an artificial neural network timing model which has been constructed to explain the process of comparing durations of stimuli. Extensive simulations performed with the use of this model revealed that the considered psychophysical properties may be strongly interrelated and dependent on a simple perceptual mechanism. The obtained results allow to formulate specific experimentally testable predictions.