Carving the clock at its component joints: Neural bases for interval timing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 160-168

  Wencil, Elaine B ^a   Coslett, H Branch ^a   Aguirre, Geoffrey K ^a   Chatterjee, Anjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954432802     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00029.2009     Document Type: Article

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