Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Activity in perceptual classification networks as a basis for human subjective time perception

  • Warrick Roseboom,
  • Zafeirios Fountas,
  • Kyriacos Nikiforou,
  • David Bhowmik,
  • Murray Shanahan,
  • Anil K. Seth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08194-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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How the brain tracks the passage of time remains unclear. Here, the authors show that tracking activation changes in a neural network trained to recognize objects (similar to the human visual system) produces estimates of duration that are subject to human-like biases.