What is all the noise about in interval timing?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1637, 2014, Pages

  Oprisan, Sorinel A ^a   Buhusi, Catalin V ^b  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interval timing; Noise; Striatal beat frequency

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NOISE; NUMERICAL METHOD; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTERVAL TIMING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STRIATAL BEAT FREQUENCY; TIME;

INTERVAL TIMING; NOISE; STRIATAL BEAT FREQUENCY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892552948     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0459     Document Type: Article

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