The Impact of Interval Timing on Decision Making: How the brain computes time and its influence on our decisions - Couverture souple

Ohmann, Tobias

 
9783838116105: The Impact of Interval Timing on Decision Making: How the brain computes time and its influence on our decisions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3838116100 ISBN 13 : 9783838116105
Editeur : Suedwestdeutscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften, 2010

Synopsis

The cognitive process of timing intervals of different durations is a complex mechanism, which is permanently solved by various species. It is an underlying process of many cognitive functions, which are crucial for survival. The timing process, from sensory recognition to the point of making a decision whether or how to react, is closely interrelated with attentional and inhibitory functions. Many timing functions co-measure other crucial cognitive functions depending on the temporal domain they cover. For example, attention to time is also measured in different timing tasks, furthermore time reproduction relies on working memory function and the ability to delay a response. In this book I manly focused on time estimation and time reproduction tasks in the domain of seconds. All these cognitive functions are related to frontal brain regions. I demonstrate that the avian NCL is capable of all these functions just like the mammalian PFC. The main question of this thesis is: ?what exactly is the role of the underlying process - interval timing - on higher cognitive functions, how is it computed in the NCL and what is the role of dopamine and acetylcholine?.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The cognitive process of timing intervals of different durations is a complex mechanism, which is permanently solved by various species. It is an underlying process of many cognitive functions, which are crucial for survival. The timing process, from sensory recognition to the point of making a decision whether or how to react, is closely interrelated with attentional and inhibitory functions. Many timing functions co-measure other crucial cognitive functions depending on the temporal domain they cover. For example, attention to time is also measured in different timing tasks, furthermore time reproduction relies on working memory function and the ability to delay a response. In this book I manly focused on time estimation and time reproduction tasks in the domain of seconds. All these cognitive functions are related to frontal brain regions. I demonstrate that the avian NCL is capable of all these functions just like the mammalian PFC. The main question of this thesis is: ?what exactly is the role of the underlying process - interval timing - on higher cognitive functions, how is it computed in the NCL and what is the role of dopamine and acetylcholine?.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Tobias Ohmann, born in 1979, studied biochemistry and conducted his PhD thesis in neuroscience at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Biopsychology in Bochum. His main scientific interests include the influence of time perception on decision making processes and the underlying neuronal and pharmacological mechanisms.

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Éditeur
Suedwestdeutscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3838116100
ISBN 13 
9783838116105
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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Personne responsable
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