In order to survive, many organisms need to learn to regulate their behavior in time. For example, a bird may travel between patches while
foraging for food. It enters a patch, stays for a period of time exploiting it, and then leaves to another patch. In the absence of a sensory
apparatus dedicated to the perception of time, how does it discriminate its residence time in the patch? What processes or mechanisms underlie
the discrimination? What factors affect it? Which models best describe it? These are some of the broad questions that inspire our research on
Timing.
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Models of timing |
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Temporal discrimination: SET or LeT? |
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Oscillations following periodic food? |
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How long is a piece of time? The quest for contextual effects on
temporal perception |
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