Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing: (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword, Robert Rousseau Introduction: The Persistence of Time, Warren H. Meck FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS A Concise Introduction to Scalar Timing Theory, Russell M. Church General Learning Models: Timing without a Clock, John W. Hopson Nonlinearities in Sensitivity to Time: Implications for Oscillator-Based Representations of Interval and Circadian Clocks, Jonathon D. Crystal Toward a Unified Theory of Animal Event Timing, Thomas T. Hills Interval Timing and Optimal Foraging, Melissa Bateson Nonverbal Representations of Time and Number in Animals and Human Infants, Elizabeth M. Brannon and Jamie D. Roitman Temporal Experience and Timing in Children, Sylvie Droit-Volet Modality Differences in Interval Timing: Attention, Clock Speed, and Memory, Trevor B. Penney Attentional Time-Sharing in Interval Timing, Claudette Fortin Grandfather's Clock: Attention and Interval Timing in Older Adults, Cindy Lustig NEURAL MECHANISMS Neurogenetics of Interval Timing, Münire Özlem Çevik Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Interval Timing and Attention, Catalin V. Buhusi Electrophysiological Correlates of Interval Timing, Shogo Sakata and Keiichi Onoda Importance of Frontal Motor Cortex in Divided Attention and Simultaneous Temporal Processing, Kevin C.H. Pang and J. Devin McAuley Integration of Behavior and Timing: Anatomically Separate Systems or Distributed Processing? Matthew S. Matell, Warren H. Meck, and Miguel A.L. Nicolelis Time Flies and May Also Sing: Cortico-Striatal Mechanisms of Interval Timing and Birdsong, Christopher J. MacDonald and Warren H. Meck Neuroimaging Approaches to the Study of Interval Timing, Sean C. Hinton Electrophysiological Evidence for Specific Processing of Temporal Information in Humans, Viviane Pouthas Cerebellar and Basal Ganglia Contributions to Interval Timing, Jörn Diedrichsen, Richard B. Ivry, and Jeff Pressing Interval Timing in the Dopamine-Depleted Basal Ganglia: From Empirical Data to Timing Theory, Chara Malapani and Brian C. Rakitin Overview: An Image of Human Neural Timing, Penelope A. Lewis and R. Chris Miall Afterword: Timing in the New Millennium, Where Are We Now? Françoise Macar Index