What makes us tick? Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 755-765

  Buhusi, Catalin V ^a   Meck, Warren H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM INJURY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSIC; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH; SPORT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACARI;

EID: 27944431681     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1764     Document Type: Review

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