ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2022
The neural bases for timing of durations.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Emotion enhances relative but not absolute temporal memory: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- Context-dependent abstraction of temporal relationships during naturalistic episodic memory.iScience · 2026Article
- Intrinsic timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex during passive behavior.Science advances · 2026Article
- Remembering the "when": Hebbian memory models for the time of past events.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Independence and coherence in temporal sequence computation across the fronto-parietal network.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- The temporal organization of memory and emotion is reciprocally coupled.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization.Nature neuroscience · 2026Review
- Retrospective duration judgments of naturalistic events depend on memories of event boundaries.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Time, space, memory and brain-body rhythms.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- A Passage of Time Signal in the Human Brain.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Frontocentral Neural Dynamics Reflect Decisions about When to Act.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Duration discrimination in the bumblebeeBiology letters · 2025Article
- Why does time feel the way it does? Toward a principled account of temporal experience.iScience · 2025Article
- Control Principles of Neural Dynamics Revealed by the Neurobiology of Timing.Annual review of neuroscience · 2025Review
- Neural Signatures of Flexible Multiple Timing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain.Nature · 2025Article
- Medium Spiny Neurons Mediate Timing Perception in Coordination with Prefrontal Neurons in Primates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Neural signatures of temporal anticipation in human cortex represent event probability density.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Durations are defined by a beginning and an end, and a major distinction is drawn between durations that start in the present and end in the future ('prospective timing') and durations that start in the past and end either in the past or the present ('retrospective timing'). Different psychological processes are thought to be engaged in each of these cases. The former is thought to engage a clock-like mechanism that accurately tracks the continuing passage of time, whereas the latter is thought to engage a reconstructive process that utilizes both temporal and non-temporal information from the memory of past events. We propose that, from a biological perspective, these two forms of duration estimation are supported by computational processes that are both reliant on population state dynamics but are nevertheless distinct. Prospective timing is effectively carried out in a single step where the ongoing dynamics of population activity directly serve as the computation of duration, whereas retrospective timing is carried out in two steps: the initial generation of population state dynamics through the process of event segmentation and the subsequent computation of duration utilizing the memory of those dynamics.
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