• DOI:10.1038/nrn1764
Corpus ID: 29616055

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

@article{Buhusi2005WhatMU,
  title={What makes us tick? Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing},
  author={C. Buhusi and W. Meck},
  journal={Nature Reviews Neuroscience},
  year={2005},
  volume={6},
  pages={755-765}
}

• C. Buhusi, W. Meck
• Published 2005
• Computer Science, Medicine
• Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Time is a fundamental dimension of life. It is crucial for decisions about quantity, speed of movement and rate of return, as well as for motor control in walking, speech, playing or appreciating music, and participating in sports. Traditionally, the way in which time is perceived, represented and estimated has been explained using a pacemaker–accumulator model that is not only straightforward, but also surprisingly powerful in explaining behavioural and biological data. However, recent… Expand