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Understanding temporal integration by the brain is expected to be among the premier topics to unite systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience over the next decade. The phenomenon has been studied in humans and animals, yet until now, there has been no publication to successfully bring together the latest information gathered from this exciting area of research. For the first time, Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing synthesizes the current knowledge of both animal behavior and human cognition as related to both technical and theoretical approaches in the study of duration discrimination.
Chapters written by the foremost experts in the field integrate the fields of time quantum and psychophysics, rhythmic performance and synchronization, as well as attentional effort and cognitive strategies through the linkage of time as information in brain and behavior. This cutting-edge scientific work promotes a concerted view of timing and time perception for those on both sides of the behavior-biology divide. With Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing neuroscientists, ethologists, and psychologists will gain the necessary background to understand the psychophysics and neurobiology of this crucial behavior.
List of contents
A Concise Guide to Interval Timing. Towards a Comparative Psychology. Decisions and Memories in Human Timing. Behavioral Evidence for Non-Linear Processes. Mode-Control Models of Counting and Timing in Non-Verbal Primates. Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Interval Timing and Attention. Physiology of Human Interval Timing Assessed Using Functional MRI. Modality Differences in Interval Timing. Electrophysiological Evidence for a Specific Processing of Temporal Information in Humans. Neural Networks and the Representation of Time. Basal Ganglia Involvement in Interval Timing and Sequence Learning. Cerebellum. Neurogenomics and the Study of Interval Timing. Striatal Beat-Frequency Models. Simultaneous Temporal Processing and Divided Attention.
About the author
Warren H. Meck
Summary
Brings the contrasting views of the behavior-biology divide into focus to promote a concerted view of timing and time perception. This book describes the basic mathematical and psychological aspects of scalar timing theory and mode-control models of counting and timing. It also examines the roles of attention and memory in interval timing.
