Time Will Tell

Professor Jones received a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts before moving to Ohio where she was hired as a visiting Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department of the Ohio State University. In 1971 she gained a permanent position in this department, and spent the rest of her career at this university. After 38 years, she retired in 2006 to write this book.

• Table of Contents Chapter 1: Overview Part I: Theoretical Framework Chapter 2: Time... and how we study it Chapter 3: The Tunable Brain Chapter 4: Tuning into world events: A General Attending Hypothesis Chapter 5: The temporal niche: An Aging Hypothesis Chapter 6: Tuning into very fast events: Pitch perception Chapter 7: Tuning into Slow events Chapter 8: Parallelism: Expectancy and production profiles Part II Applications of Theoretic constructs: To domains of music and speech Chapter 9: Meter and rhythm: How we hear them Chapter 10: Learning time patterns Chapter 11: Musical Melodies Chapter 12: Speech Timing Chapter 13: Melodies of Speech Chapter 14: Learning speech: From phonemes to syllables to words Chapter 15: Concluding Speculations

Time Will Tell provides intellectual openness with no sacrificing of a clear theoretical positioning, which will surely feed much-needed empirical work on the complex issue of time of the mind. Of course, only Time Will Tell.