Neural encoding of time: the striatum vs prefrontal cortex
02/28/2017
The neural mechanisms of encoding timing are still controversial. According to one prominent hypothesis, time is encoded in local network dynamics - see a previous blog post dedicated to this issue. However, similar mechanisms ("population clocks") have been linked to multiple areas across the brain, including the striatum, prefrontal and parietal cortices, and the hippocampus. Does this variety of brain regions reflect a specialisation of each area to track time at e.g. a different scale, or is time encoded in parallel in several regions?
[Link] to the original blog post for Timing Research Forum