In Search of Oscillatory Traces of the Internal Clock

Frontiers in Psychology

Tadeusz W. Kononowicz¹ 

关键词: time perception;    interval timing;    internal clock;    oscillations;    striatal beta frequency;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00224

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Neural oscillations are ubiquitous in the mammalian brain and they are typically classified according to their specific frequency responses (Buzsáki, 2006). Neural oscillations are hypothesized to organize communication within and between brain networks (e.g., Fries, 2015). Neural oscillations have increasingly been associated with various cognitive functions such as attention (Klimesch, 2012), working memory (Gulbinaite et al., 2014a; Haegens et al., 2014), and cognitive control (Cavanagh et al., 2009; Gulbinaite et al., 2014b) but also temporal expectation (Praamstra et al., 2006; Cravo et al., 2011; Rohenkohl and Nobre, 2011) and timing (Treisman, 1963; van Wassenhove, 2009; Kösem et al., 2014; Kononowicz and van Rijn, 2014). One quest in cognitive neuroscience is to explain how neural oscillations can subserve complex cognitive processes. Here, we mainly focus on the role of spontaneous rhythms in interval timing (also see van Wassenhove, in press); however, some hypotheses are supported by the literature on rhythmic entrainment.

【 授权许可】

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