Distortions in the Content of Temporal Memory

Distortions in timing and time perception are presented by a number of different neurological disorders (e.g., Bunning, 1973; Corkin, 1984; Fraisse, 1984; Gloning & Hoff, 1969; Goody, 1969; Malapani, Pillon, Lo Russo, DuBois, Munari, & Agid, 1992; Malapani, Rakitin, Meek, Deweer, Dubois, & Gibbon, 1998; Meek & Benson, 2001; Nichelli, Venneri, Molinari, Tavani, & Grafman, 1993; Penney, Meek, Roberts, Gibbon, & Erlenmeyer-Kimling, 2001; Richards, 1973; Williams, 1969) as well as normal aging (e.g., Lustig & Meek, 1998, Lustig & Meek, 2001; Meek, Church, & Wenk, 1986), pharmacological manipulations (e.g., Levin, Conners, Sparrow, Hinton, Erhardt, Meek, Rose, & March, 1996; Levin, Conners, Silva, Hinton, Meek, March, & Rose, 1998; Meek, 1983, Meek, 1986; Meek & Williams, 1997a; Paule, Meek, McMillan, Bateson, Popke, Chelonis, & Hinton, 1999) and stimulus modality effects (e.g., Meek, 1991; Penney, Gibbon, & Meek, 2000) in both animals and humans. Normal subject populations often show large and consistent individual differences in the remembered times of events that are not a direct consequence of the time of feedback or signal duration (Church & Meek, 1988; Lejeune, Ferrara, Soffie, Bronchait, & Wearden, 1997). The primary focus of this chapter is on factors that define or produce such systematic changes (discrepancies) in the content of temporal memory.