| Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing Contributor(s): Meck, Warren H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0849311098 ISBN-13: 9780849311093 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2003 Annotation: The term 'interval timing' is used to describe the processes involved in the estimation and reproduction of intervals in the seconds to hours range. Humans and other animals depend on this ability for many forms of cognitive processing, including learning, memory, and attention. Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing is the only book that integrates across both human and animal timing and focuses on timing and time perception from both a behavioral and neural perspective. The foremost experts in the field provide neuroscientists, ethologists, and psychologists with the background needed to understand the psychophysics and neurobiology of this crucial behavior. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Psychology | Neuropsychology - Psychology | Experimental Psychology |
| Dewey: 153.753 |
| LCCN: 2002035040 |
| Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience |
| Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6.2" W x 9.68" (2.15 lbs) 600 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |