Overview
- Presents the definitive reference in the field
- Provides an extensive update of the first edition with many completely new chapters on both interval-based and beat-based timing
- This provides the current knowledge of animal behavior and human cognition
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1455)
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Keywords
- neurophysiology
- time perception
- sensory timing
- motor timing
- neural dynamics
About this book
The study of how the brain processes time is becoming one of the most important topics in systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience, as well as in the physiologic bases of music and language. During the last and current decade, interval timing has been intensively studied in humans and animals using increasingly sophisticated approaches. This new edition of the Neurobiology of Interval Timing integrates the current knowledge of animal behavior and human cognition of the passage of time in different behavioral contexts, including the perception and production of time intervals, as well as rhythmic activities. The chapters are written by the leading experts in the fields of psychophysics, functional imaging, systems neurophysiology, and musicology. The new edition features a complete updating of the content with many new chapters. The main updates are the remarkable advances in our understanding of the neural basis of temporal processing in monkeys, rodents, and humans. The notion is that the neural clock depends on the dynamics of neural populations in the motor system, and that this general internal time representation interacts with the sensory and cognitive systems depending on the timing requirements and the behavioral contingencies of a specific task. Also, this edition delineates a clearer distinction between interval-based and beat-based timing in humans.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hugo Merchant, PhD, is Professor of Neurobiology and Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Neurobiology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Juriquilla, Mexico. His research focuses on the neural basis of time. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience of and the Journal of Neurophysiology, and on the Editorial Boards of eLife, Frontiers in System Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
Victor de Lafuente, PhD, is Professor of Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico. His research interests are centered around the neuronal correlates of sensory perception, motor planning, and decision making. He is on the Board of Senior Editors for Neuroscience and is on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers In Molecular Neurobiology and Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurobiology of Interval Timing
Editors: Hugo Merchant, Victor de Lafuente
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Publisher: Springer Cham
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 Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-60182-8Due: 28 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-60185-9Due: 28 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-60183-5Due: 28 July 2024
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 307
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour