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Hannes Eisler

FD, professor em.

Main Research Interests

Time perception, cognition, scaling, similarity, mathematical psychology, neuropsychology, psychophysics.

Current Research Projects

Time perception: the biological and cognitive clocks
Time perception in Japanese schizophrenics
Speed of time and subjective duration
Time perception: Memory deficit in a neurologically damaged individual
Experienced similarity
Developing of mathematical models for description of sensation

Recent Articles

Eisler, H. (1982). On the nature of subjective scales. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 23, 161-171.

Eisler, H. (1984). Comments on Shimp's double dissociation between knowledge and tacit knowledge. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 41, 341-344.

Eisler, H. (1984). Knowing before doing: Discrimination by rats of a brief interruption of a tone. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 41, 329-340.

Eisler, H. (1984). Subjective duration in rats: The psychophysical function. In J. Gibbon & L. Allan (Eds.), Timing and time perception: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 423 (pp. 43-51). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

Eisler, H. (1987). Timing of rats' lever pressing when learning not to press: Temporal holes in the latency distributions. In E. E. Roskam & R. Suck (Eds.), Progress in mathematical psychology- 1 (pp. 219-232). New York: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North-Holland).

Eisler, H. (1989). Serendipity in animal experimentation: Examples from duration scaling in rats. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 3, 137-149.

Eisler, H., & Lindman, R. (1990). Representations of dimensional models of similarity. In H.-G. Geissler (Ed.), Psychophysical explorations of mental structures (pp. 165-171). Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber.

Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1991). A mathematical model for time perception with experimentally obtained subjective time scales for humans and rats. Chronobiologia, 18, 79-88. [Also in E. Isla Cruzado (Ed.), Actas del 4to. Congreso Internacional de Biomatematica, Lima, Peru, 1989 (pp. 177-196)]

Eisler, H. (1992). Psychophysical invariance, perceptual invariance and the physicalistic trap. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 15, 566-567.

Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1992). Time perception: Effects of sex and sound intensity on scales of subjective duration. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 33, 339-358.

Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (1994). Subjective time scaling: Influence of age, gender, and Type A and Type B behavior. Chronobiologia, 21, 185-200.

Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Camara, G. (1994). The effect of the interstimulus interval on duration reproduction. In L. M. Ward (Ed.), Fechner day 94 (pp. 30-35). Vancouver: International Society for Psychophysics.

Eisler, H. (1995). The psychophysical functions for time perception: Interpreting their parameters. In D. Luce, M. D'Zmura, D. Hoffman, G. J. Iverson, & A. K. Romney (Eds.), Geometric representations of perceptual phenomena (pp. 253-265). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., Guirao, M., & Harris, P. (1995). Time perception in children. In C.-A. Possamaï (Ed.), Fechner Day 95 (pp. 179-184). Cassis, France: International Society for Psychophysics.

Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Gregson, R. A. M. (1995). A cusp in the subjective width of rectangles. In G. Neely (Ed.), Perception and psychophysics in theory and application. Stockholm: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.

Eisler, H. Time perception from a psychophysicists perspective (1996). In H. Helfrich (Ed.), Time and mind (pp. 65-86). Seattle, WA: Hogrefe & Huber.

Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1996). On the origin of breaks in psychophysical functions. In S. C. Masin (Ed.), Fechner Day 96 (pp. 69-73). Padua: International Society for Psychophysics.

Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Montgomery, H. (1996). Prospective and retrospective time perception: Cognitive and biological approaches. In S. C. Masin (Ed.), Fechner Day 96 (pp. 251-256). Padua: International Society for Psychophysics.

Eisler, H. (1997). The measurement of experiences: Psychophysics and subjective scales. In M. Guirao (Ed.), Procesos sensoriales y cognitivos [Sensory and cognitive processes] (pp. 33-36). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Dunken.

Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H., & Derwinger, A. (1997). Time perception and personality. In M. Guirao (Ed.), Procesos sensoriales y cognitivos [Sensory and cognitive processes] (pp. 371-387). Buenos Aires: Dunken.

Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Montgomery, H. (1997). Speed of time and unpleasantness of sound in known and unknown durations. In A. Preis & T. Hornowski (Eds.), Fechner Day 97 (pp. 143-148). Poznan: International Society for Psychophysics.

Eisler, H. (1998). Distal similarity, shape referents, subjective world, and redundancy: Theoretical and empirical considerations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 470.

Eisler, H. (1998, Agosto 15). Podemos medir lo que se percibe? Psicofísica y escalas subjetivas I. El Litoral: Ciencia y Tecnica, 2, 3.

Eisler, H. (1998, Agosto 22). Podemos medir lo que se percibe? Psicofísica y escalas subjetivas II. El Litoral: Ciencia y Tecnica, 2, 5.

Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Montgomery, H. (1998). Speed of time and the psychophysical function for subjective duration. In S. Grondin & Y. Lacouture (Eds.), Fechner Day ´98 (pp. 83-88). Québec: International Society for Psychophysics.

Mori, S., Murata, M., Saito, O., Okabe, A., Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (1998). [Time perception in Japanese schizophrenics]. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association (p. 579). Tokyo: JPA. (Abstract)

Find Eisler's abstracts in the Annual Report database.

Doctor's Dissertation

On the problem of category scales in psychophysics.

Participation in International Congresses

International Congress of Psychology
European Congress of Psychology
Society of Mathematical Psychology
European Gropup of Mathematical Psychology
International Society for the Study of Time
International Society for Psychophysics

Cooperation

Prof. Mitsuo Yoshida, Department of Behaviormetrics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Prof. Shuji Mori, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan
Prof. Miguelina Guirao, Sensory Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prof. Richard Block, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA
Prof. Robert Gregson, Department of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Financial support

The Swedish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences
The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Commissions

Reviewer for international journals, research grants, tenures, doctoral dissertations, etc.

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