Journal article
Neural mechanisms of timing
Trends in cognitive sciences, Vol.1(5), pp.163-169
1997
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01058-9
PMID: 21223897
Abstract
A crucial step in timing research is to isolate clock components from other sources of temporal variability. Significant progress has been made both behaviorally and neurologically, using elaborate experimental designs that separate timing mechanisms from motoric sensory and mnemonic processes. Marked similarities between the temporal characteristics of the clock in perception and production tasks implicate a common timing system. Similar conclusions can be reached from clinical studies, indeed individuals with neocerebellar damage are impaired at discriminating and reproducing short intervals. However, other patient populations, especially those with disorders affecting the basal ganglia, also exhibit deficits in timing tasks. It therefore appears that temporal computation may be distributed throughout the brain with specific roles for different neural structures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neural mechanisms of timing
- Creators
- Eliot HazeltineLaura L HelmuthRichard B Ivry
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Trends in cognitive sciences, Vol.1(5), pp.163-169
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01058-9
- PMID
- 21223897
- ISSN
- 1364-6613
- eISSN
- 1879-307X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1997
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070695202771
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