Accumulation of neural activity in the posterior insula encodes the passage of time

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3110-3120

  Wittmann, Marc ^a,b,c   Simmons, Alan N ^a,b   Aron, Jennifer L ^a   Paulus, Martin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duration reproduction; FMRI; Insular cortex; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955282210     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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