Timing the brain: mental chronometry as a tool in neuroscience

PLoS Biol. 2005 Feb;3(2):e51. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030051.

Abstract

Mental chronometry, which has origins dating back over a century, seeks to measure the time course of mental operations in the human nervous system

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Brain / physiology*
  • Cognition / physiology
  • Electrophysiology / methods
  • Emotions
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology
  • Humans
  • Microelectrodes
  • Models, Neurological
  • Neurons / physiology
  • Reaction Time / physiology*
  • Time Perception / physiology*