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ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2020

Navigating Through Time: A Spatial Navigation Perspective on How the Brain May Encode Time.

John B Issa, Gilad Tocker, Michael E Hasselmo, James G Heys, Daniel A Dombeck

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Review in Annual review of neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  12. Time for Memories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  13. Spontaneous α Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic "When".The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  16. The neural bases for timing of durations.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

John B IssaDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; email: d-dombeck@northwestern.edu.
Gilad TockerDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; email: d-dombeck@northwestern.edu.
Michael E HasselmoCenter for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
James G HeysDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
Daniel A DombeckDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; email: d-dombeck@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Behavioral relevance of active dendritic mechanisms of integration and plasticityR01MH101297 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI DOMBECK, DANIEL A · 2013 to 2023
$4.8M
Training Program in Neurobiology of Information StorageT32MH067564 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniel A Dombeck · 2003 to 2026
$4.7M
Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Coding in CortexR01MH120073 · NIMH · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI HASSELMO, MICHAEL E · 2019 to 2023
$2.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101297NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH120073NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH067564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interval timing, which operates on timescales of seconds to minutes, is distributed across multiple brain regions and may use distinct circuit mechanisms as compared to millisecond timing and circadian rhythms. However, its study has proven difficult, as timing on this scale is deeply entangled with other behaviors. Several circuit and cellular mechanisms could generate sequential or ramping activity patterns that carry timing information. Here we propose that a productive approach is to draw parallels between interval timing and spatial navigation, where direct analogies can be made between the variables of interest and the mathematical operations necessitated. Along with designing experiments that isolate or disambiguate timing behavior from other variables, new techniques will facilitate studies that directly address the neural mechanisms that are responsible for interval timing.

Indexed as

TimeAnimalsBrainCircadian RhythmHumansModels, NeurologicalNeuronsSpatial Navigationanimal behaviorepisodic memoryinterval timingneural circuitsspatial navigationtiming

Identifiers

PMID31961765
PMCPMC7351603

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