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Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2020, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (9): 1478-1492.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2020.01478

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Animal research paradigm and related neural mechanism of interval timing

WENG Chunchun, WANG Ning()   

  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China
    Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 China
  • Received:2019-11-19 Online:2020-09-15 Published:2020-07-24
  • Contact: WANG Ning E-mail:wangn@psych.ac.cn

Abstract:

In exploring the brain mechanism of interval timing, animal research, compared with human subjects, can provide more evidence in pharmacology, molecular biology, single neuron electrophysiology and optogenetics. At present, the commonly used animal research paradigms of interval timing include temporal bisection task, peak-interval procedure and differential reinforcement of low rates. To be well fit for different research need, animal research paradigms are often adjusted. Animal research of interval timing were discussed from two aspects: (1) the introduction and comparison of the commonly used animal research paradigms of interval timing; (2) the research progress of neural mechanism of interval timing based on these paradigms, to provide a reference for further psychological research on time perception.

Key words: interval timing, animal research, experimental paradigm, neural mechanism, time perception/ temporal perception

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