Time for What? Dissociating Explicit Timing Tasks through Electrophysiological Signatures.

ABSTRACT: Estimating durations between hundreds of milliseconds and seconds is essential for several daily tasks. Explicit timing tasks, which require participants to estimate durations to make a comparison (time for perception) or to reproduce them (time for action), are often used to investigate psychological and neural timing mechanisms. Recent studies have proposed that mechanisms may depend on specific task requirements. In this study, we conducted electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings on human participants as they estimated intervals in different task contexts to investigate the extent to which timing mechanisms depend on the nature of the task. We compared the neural processing of identical visual reference stimuli in two different tasks, in which stimulus durations were either perceptually c

SUBMITTER: Bueno FD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10884563 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature