Minding Time: a Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time

I Introduction -- 1.1 Minding Time 1 -- 1.2 Time: The Most Primitive Representation 5 -- 1.3 Outline Of Proposals 8 -- Ii Periodic And Interval Clocks: The Uniformity Of Time And The Units Of Time 11 -- 2.1 Records Of Time 13 -- 2.2 Periodic Clocks 15 -- 2.3 Interval Clocks 18 -- 2.4 A Comparison Between Periodic And Interval Clocks 25 -- 2.4.1 Disadvantages Of Periodic Clocks 25 -- 2.4.2 Disadvantages Of Interval Clocks 28 -- 2.4.3 Hybrid And Semi-hybrid Clocks 32 -- 2.5 The Circadian Clock 35 -- 2.5.1 Entrainment 37 -- 2.5.2 Circadian Clock Representations 40 -- 2.6 The Stopwatch 46 -- Iii Sensory-motor Representations Of Time, The Outputs Of The Clocks And The Two Constraints On Motor Time Coordination 55 -- 3.1 Representation And Isomorphism 56 -- 3.2 Metric Structure 65 -- 3.2.1 The Metric Structure Of The Outputs Of The Circadian Clock 65 -- 3.2.2 The Metric Structure Of The Outputs Of The Stopwatch 69 -- 3.3 Analog Clock Representations 74 -- 3.3.1 First Criterion: Loss Of Information 76 -- 3.3.2 Second Criterion: Continuity And Density 79 -- 3.3.3 Third Criterion: Approximate Representation 81 -- 3.3.4 Fourth Criterion: Analog Misrepresentation 83 -- 3.3.5 Fifth Criterion: Cognitive Integration 87 -- Iv A Two-phase Model Of The Present (coordination And Experience) 93 -- 4.1 Simultaneity Windows And The Units Of Time: The Third Constraint On Coordination In Time 96 -- 4.1.1 Sense-specific Simultaneity Windows 97 -- 4.1.2 The Multi-sensory Integration Window 99 -- 4.1.3 The Multi-sensory Integration Window And The Clocks 102 -- 4.1.4 The Sensorial Present 105 -- 4.2 Meta-semantic Mechanisms And The Temporal Indexical 112 -- 4.2.1 The Need For Meta-semantic Mechanisms 114 -- 4.2.2 The Meta-semantic Mechanism For Temporal Demonstrative Representation 115 -- 4.3 The Phenomenal Present 118 -- 4.3.1 The Phenomenal Specious Present 121 -- 4.3.2 The Relation Responsible For Phenomenal Unification 127 -- 4.4 The Two-phase Model Of The Present 133. By Carlos Montemayor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.