Neural Correlates of Time Perception: Revisiting Central Questions
We guide our behavior by environmental cues to interact with other beings and with our surroundings. Several of these cues exhibit temporal regularities. We use temporal information to direct our attention, decision-making and other cognitive functions. The range of hundreds of milliseconds to seconds is critical for sensory and motor processing, learning and other functions. There is still no consensus about the underlying neural mechanisms of this ability. In this project, we investigate the neural correlates of temporal perception through multivariate analysis of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal and behavior in different timing tasks. This project aims to examine the existence of a common neural representation of temporal processing, or if it depends on the nature of the task and context. Hence, human participants performed different timing tasks combined with EEG recording. The results obtained with this project will provide a better understanding of the neural bases of temporal processing through multivariate analysis.