Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing

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Warren H. Meck
CRC Press, Mar 24, 2003 - Medical - 600 pages
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

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Contents

1 A Concise Introduction to Scalar Timing Theory
3
Timing without a Clock
23
Implications for OscillatorBased Representations of Interval and Circadian Clocks
61
4 Toward a Unified Theory of Animal Event Timing
77
5 Interval Timing and Optimal Foraging
113
6 Nonverbal Representations of Time and Number in Animals and Human Infants
143
7 Temporal Experience and Timing in Children
183
Attention Clock Speed and Memory
209
13 Electrophysiological Correlates of Interval Timing
339
14 Importance of Frontal Motor Cortex in Divided Attention and Simultaneous Temporal Processing
351
Anatomically Separate Systems or Distributed Processing?
371
CorticoStriatal Mechanisms of Interval Timing and Birdsong
393
17 Neuroimaging Approaches to the Study of Interval Timing
419
18 Electrophysiological Evidence for Specific Processing of Temporal Information in Humans
439
19 Cerebellar and Basal Ganglia Contributions to Interval Timing
457
From Empirical Data to Timing Theory
485

9 Attentional TimeSharing in Interval Timing
235
Attention and Interval Timing in Older Adults
261
11 Neurogenetics of Interval Timing
297
12 Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Interval Timing and Attention
317
An Image of Human Neural Timing
515
Afterword
533
Index
541
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