Chemical Clock

The study of time perception is obviously hampered by the inability to identify any organ which is obviously responsible for it. Whereas vision or hearing science can begin with the physical properties of the sense organ subserving visual or auditory perception, something which has aided both the psychology and physiology of vision and audition, a person interested in time perception has no such clear starting point. Nevertheless, an extremely influential idea has been that there is a type of “organ” for time, in the form of an “internal clock” of sorts.

In the English-speaking world, the name of Hudson Hoagland is usually associated with the concept that humans possess some sort of ‘chemical clock’ a notion which was precursor of internal clock models of historical precedence in this area actually belongs to Marcel Francois, a pupil of the famous French psychologist Pieron, who in 1927 published a study in which he used diathermy (the passage of high-frequency electric current through the body) to induce bodily heating, and observe the effects of time judgments. ` Page 15/16

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