IU Spring 2008 Animal Behavior Colloquia

IU Spring 2008 Animal Behavior Colloquia

JONATHON D. CRYSTAL
University of Georgia

"Oscillator Representations of Time"

It is generally accepted that the ability to keep track of time is subserved by separate mechanisms dedicated to different ranges of time (daily: circadian timing; seconds to minutes: interval timing; milliseconds: neural timing). Multiple converging approaches are employed in rats to document that, in contrast to this widely held view, timing of targets in the range of milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, and days are subserved by similar mechanisms that are conserved throughout these disparate ranges. The unifying principle that emerges from this line of research is that timing abilities are based on oscillator representations.

Friday, April 11, 2008
12:15PM
Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, room 128
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