摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter explains the psychological research that over past century has produced a substantial body of information about experience time. Humans and other animals can learn to anticipate end regular temporal intervals, probably using special biological timing mechanisms. Although timers may play role in time perception, registration internal external changes memory for contents an interval explain most humans' impressions magnitude brief durations. Our chronological sense is product ability use what remembered event reconstruct its location time, some quality memories, such as their vividness, process establishes links among related events. are able have place because they possess mental representations recurrent patterns. These take several forms, including images ordered verbal lists.