Book contents
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Sensation and the Experience of Time Passage
- Chapter 2 Gestalt and the Otherness of Everyday Experience
- Chapter 3 Near and Far in Space and Time
- Chapter 4 Memory With and Without Remembering
- Chapter 5 The Activated Mind
- Chapter 6 The Decay Process
- Chapter 7 The Body in Time
- Chapter 8 An Allometry for Rhythmic Pulse
- Chapter 9 Allometries in Body Energetics
- Chapter 10 The Feeling of Time
- References
- Index
Chapter 9 - Allometries in Body Energetics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2025
Book contents
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Sensation and the Experience of Time Passage
- Chapter 2 Gestalt and the Otherness of Everyday Experience
- Chapter 3 Near and Far in Space and Time
- Chapter 4 Memory With and Without Remembering
- Chapter 5 The Activated Mind
- Chapter 6 The Decay Process
- Chapter 7 The Body in Time
- Chapter 8 An Allometry for Rhythmic Pulse
- Chapter 9 Allometries in Body Energetics
- Chapter 10 The Feeling of Time
- References
- Index
Summary
An effort is made to understand the scaling exponent in the allometry between body size and the watershed tempo for rhythmic pulse. Context is provided by reviewing the scaling exponents that describe the two principal ways in which the body expends energy: walking and maintenance of core body temperature through basal metabolism. The physics of the pendulum is used to derive a scaling exponent for walking. The scaling exponents for physiological timescales are derived first from a study of basal metabolism and then from a compilation of heartbeat period data. This analysis leads to the conclusion that pulse allometry has the same mathematical structure as heart period allometry. It is argued finally that both scale with the surface area of the body.
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