ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2009
Relative time sharing: new findings and an extension of the resource allocation model of temporal processing.
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- The Role of the Serotonergic System in Time Perception: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of microdose LSD on time perception: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Psychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- Modulation of Non-Rhythmic Temporal Prediction by Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation (STN-DBS) in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Article
- Sense of Time in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: ADHD and Developmental Dyscalculia from a Dimensional and Transdiagnostic Perspective.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- The potential mechanisms underlying the effect of acute alcohol use on duration perception.Addiction biology · 2024Article
- Alcohol use disorder and time perception: The mediating role of attention and working memory.Addiction biology · 2024Article
- Distortions in time perception related to videogames, pornography, and TV series exposure: An experimental study in three independent samples.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- mPFC catecholamines modulate attentional capture by appetitive distracters and attention to time in a peak-interval procedure in rats.Behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The impact of cognitive load on prospective and retrospective time estimates at long durations: An investigation using a visual and memory search paradigm.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Dopamine and the interdependency of time perception and reward.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Effects of 15-Day Head-Down Bed Rest on Emotional Time Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Effect of Electrical Stimulation-Induced Pain on Time Perception and Relationships to Pain-Related Emotional and Cognitive Factors: A Temporal Bisection Task and Questionnaire-Based Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Movement-Contingent Time Flow in Virtual Reality Causes Temporal Recalibration.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Neurochemical changes in basal ganglia affect time perception in parkinsonians.Journal of biomedical science · 2018Review
- Inactivation of the Medial-Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Interval Timing Precision, but Not Timing Accuracy or Scalar Timing in a Peak-Interval Procedure in Rats.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2018Article
- The Persistence of Memory: How the Brain Encodes Time in Memory.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2017Article
- Sex differences in interval timing and attention to time in C57Bl/6J mice.Behavioural brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Individuals time as if using a stopwatch that can be stopped or reset on command. Here, we review behavioural and neurobiological data supporting the time-sharing hypothesis that perceived time depends on the attentional and memory resources allocated to the timing process. Neuroimaging studies in humans suggest that timekeeping tasks engage brain circuits typically involved in attention and working memory. Behavioural, pharmacological, lesion and electrophysiological studies in lower animals support this time-sharing hypothesis. When subjects attend to a second task, or when intruder events are presented, estimated durations are shorter, presumably due to resources being taken away from timing. Here, we extend the time-sharing hypothesis by proposing that resource reallocation is proportional to the perceived contrast, both in temporal and non-temporal features, between intruders and the timed events. New findings support this extension by showing that the effect of an intruder event is dependent on the relative duration of the intruder to the intertrial interval. The conclusion is that the brain circuits engaged by timekeeping comprise not only those primarily involved in time accumulation, but also those involved in the maintenance of attentional and memory resources for timing, and in the monitoring and reallocation of those resources among tasks.
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