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Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa (2019) Thinking in and about time : a dual systems perspective on temporal cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42 . e244. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18002157 ISSN 0140-525X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002157
Abstract
We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time – a temporal updating system and a temporal reasoning system – of which the former is both phylogenetically and ontogenetically more primitive than the latter, and which are at work alongside each other in adult human cognition. We describe the main features of each of the two systems, the types of behavior the more primitive temporal updating system can support, and the respects in which it is more limited than the temporal reasoning system. We then use the distinction between the two systems to interpret findings in comparative and developmental psychology, arguing that animals operate only with a temporal updating system and that children start out doing so too, before gradually becoming capable of thinking and reasoning about time. After this, we turn to adult human cognition and suggest that our account can also shed light on a specific feature of our everyday thinking about time that has been the subject of debate in the philosophy of time, which consists in a tendency to think about the nature of time itself in a way that appears ultimately self-contradictory. We conclude by considering the topic of intertemporal choice, and argue that drawing the distinction between temporal updating and temporal reasoning is also useful in the context of characterising two distinct mechanisms for delaying gratification.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cognition, Time perception, Time -- Philosophy, Cognition in animals, Space and time, Choice (Psychology) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0140-525X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 12 December 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 69 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e244 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X18002157 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa (2018) Thinking in and about time : a dual systems perspective on temporal cognition. (In Press) publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © Cambridge University Press 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 September 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 September 2018 | ||||||||
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