Time for What? Breaking Down Temporal Anticipation

Trends Neurosci. 2019 Jun;42(6):373-374. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2019.03.002. Epub 2019 Mar 15.

Abstract

A variety of environmental regularities enable us to anticipate the timing of upcoming sensations and actions. A recent article (Breska and Ivry, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2018;115:12283-12288) reports a striking neural double dissociation between two distinct varieties of temporal anticipation. Looking forward, we consider further dissociations according to the goals for which temporal anticipation is used.

Keywords: Parkinson’s disease; action; association; attention; basal ganglia; cerebellar degeneration; cerebellum; cognition; double dissociation; interval judgement; orienting; perception; performance; regularity; rhythm; temporal processing.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases*
  • Parkinson Disease*