Functional Anatomy of the Attentional Modulation of Time Estimation

@article{Coull2004FunctionalAO,
  title={Functional Anatomy of the Attentional Modulation of Time Estimation},
  author={Jennifer T. Coull and Franck Vidal and Bruno Nazarian and Françoise Macar},
  journal={Science},
  year={2004},
  volume={303},
  pages={1506 - 1508}
}
Attention modulates our subjective perception of time. The less we attend to an event's duration, the shorter it seems to last. Attention to time or color stimulus attributes was modulated parametrically in an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Linear increases in task performance were accompanied by corresponding increases in brain activity. Increasing attention to time selectively increased activity in a corticostriatal network, including pre–supplementary motor area… 
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