The study of how the brain processes temporal information is becoming one of the most important
topics in systems cellular computational and cognitive neuroscience as well as in the
physiological bases of music and language. During the last and current decade interval timing
has been intensively studied in humans and animals using increasingly sophisticated
methodological approaches. The present book will bring together the latest information gathered
from this exciting area of research putting special emphasis on the neural underpinnings of
time processing in behaving human and non-human primates. Thus Neurobiology of Interval Timing
will integrate for the first time the current knowledge of both animal behavior and human
cognition of the passage of time in different behavioral context including the perception and
production of time intervals as well as rhythmic activities using different experimental and
theoretical frameworks. The book will the composed of chapters written by the leading experts
in the fields of psychophysics functional imaging system neurophysiology and musicology.
This cutting-edge scientific work will integrate the current knowledge of the neurobiology of
timing behavior putting in perspective the current hypothesis of how the brain quantifies the
passage of time across a wide variety of critical behaviors.
