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Neurobiology of Interval Timing

  • Explores the current knowledge of neurobiology of timing behavior
  • Includes up to date chapters written by leading experts in the fields of psychophysics, functional imaging, system neurophysiology, and musicology
  • Discusses both animal behavior and human cognition with regard to the passage of time in a behavioral context
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 829)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction to the Neurobiology of Interval Timing

    • Hugo Merchant, Victor de Lafuente
    Pages 1-13
  3. Psychophysics of Interval Timing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Neurocomputational Models of Time Perception

      • Joachim Hass, Daniel Durstewitz
      Pages 49-71
  4. Timing Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Dedicated Clock/Timing-Circuit Theories of Time Perception and Timed Performance

      • Hedderik van Rijn, Bon-Mi Gu, Warren H. Meck
      Pages 75-99
  5. Neural Correlates of Interval Timing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Signs of Timing in Motor Cortex During Movement Preparation and Cue Anticipation

      • Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik, Joachim Confais, Alexa Riehle
      Pages 121-142
    3. Neurophysiology of Timing in the Hundreds of Milliseconds: Multiple Layers of Neuronal Clocks in the Medial Premotor Areas

      • Hugo Merchant, Ramón Bartolo, Oswaldo Pérez, Juan Carlos Méndez, Germán Mendoza, Jorge Gámez et al.
      Pages 143-154
    4. The Olivo-Cerebellar System as a Neural Clock

      • James Ashe, Khalaf Bushara
      Pages 155-165
  6. Functional Imaging and Interval Timing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Motor and Perceptual Timing in Parkinson’s Disease

      • Catherine R. G. Jones, Marjan Jahanshahi
      Pages 265-290
  7. Neural Underpinnings of Rhythm and Music

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

About this book

The study of how the brain processes temporal information is becoming one of the most important topics in systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience, as well as in the physiological bases of music and language. During the last and current decade, interval timing has been intensively studied in humans and animals using increasingly sophisticated methodological approaches. The present book will bring together the latest information gathered from this exciting area of research, putting special emphasis on the neural underpinnings of time processing in behaving human and non-human primates. Thus, Neurobiology of Interval Timing will integrate for the first time the current knowledge of both animal behavior and human cognition of the passage of time in different behavioral context, including the perception and production of time intervals, as well as rhythmic activities, using different experimental and theoretical frameworks. The book will the composed of chapters written by the leading experts in the fields of psychophysics, functional imaging, system neurophysiology, and musicology. This cutting-edge scientific work will integrate the current knowledge of the neurobiology of timing behavior putting in perspective the current hypothesis of how the brain quantifies the passage of time across a wide variety of critical behaviors.

Reviews

“This is an outstanding textbook on the neurophysiology of coding with mathematical and statistical models. … I highly recommend this outstanding textbook to all interested audiences including neurophysiologists, neuroscientists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons in the research field involving timing mechanisms through psychophysics, probability theory, and mathematical modeling.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, May, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Campus Juriquilla, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Queretaro, Mexico

    Hugo Merchant, Victor de Lafuente

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neurobiology of Interval Timing

  • Editors: Hugo Merchant, Victor de Lafuente

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1782-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1781-5Published: 31 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4496-5Published: 27 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1782-2Published: 30 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 358

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Human Physiology

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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