Gibbon, J. (1999).
Multiple time scales is well named.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
71, 272-275.
Staddon and Higa's article is a critique of scalar expectancy
theory, and a proposed alternative, multiple time scales. The
critique is generally flawed, both factually and logically. The
alternative is bewildering in its flexibility, opaque in its
quantitative description, and never addressed to real data.
Key words: timing, scalar expectancy theory