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The perception of time is one of the hallmarks of conscious experience. However, despite this importance, time is a relatively understudied dimension in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. A central question within the time perception literature is whether timing relies on a …

The experiments reported within this thesis use psychophysical techniques to examine the factors which determine perceived multisensory timing in humans. Chapters 1 and 2 describe anatomical and psychophysical features of temporal processing, respectively, whilst Chapter 3 intro…

Classical value estimation reinforcement learning algorithms do not perform very well in dynamic environments. On the other hand, the reinforcement learning of animals is quite flexible: they can adapt to dynamic environments very quickly and deal with noisy inputs very effectiv…

Individuals frequently note that as they age their perception of the passage of time seems to quicken (Draaisma, 2004; Friedman & Janson, 2010). The reasons for this apparent quickening have been a topic of psychological interest from the very beginnings of formal psychological …