Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

A cerebellar mechanism for learning prior distributions of time intervals

  • Devika Narain,
  • Evan D. Remington,
  • Chris I. De Zeeuw,
  • Mehrdad Jazayeri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02516-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Human timing behavior is biased towards previously encountered intervals and is predicted by Bayesian models. Here, the authors develop a computational model based in properties of the cerebellum to show how we might encode time estimates based on prior experience.