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記憶と時間認知
Memory and Temporal Cognition

開催日 2014/9/13
時間 10:00 - 11:00
会場 Room H(304)
Chairperson(s) 定藤 規弘 / Norihiro Sadato (自然科学研究機構 生理学研究所 大脳皮質機能研究系 / Department of Cerebral Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
北澤 茂 / Shigeru Kitazawa (大阪大学大学院生命機能研究科 / Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Japan)

下頭頂小葉における時間長選択性
Duration Selectivity in the Human Parietal Cortex

  • O3-H-2-4
  • 林 正道 / Masamichi Hayashi:1,2,3,4 Ditye Thomas / Thomas Ditye:2 原田 宗子 / Tokiko Harada:5 橋口 真帆 / Maho Hashiguchi:5,6 定藤 規弘 / Norihiro Sadato:5,6,7 Carlson Synnöve / Synnöve Carlson:3,4 Walsh Vincent / Vincent Walsh:2 金井 良太 / Ryota Kanai:1,2 
  • 1:School Psychol, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK / School Psychol, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK 2:Inst Cogn Neurosci, Univ College London, London, UK / Inst Cogn Neurosci, Univ College London, London, UK 3:Brain Res Unit, O. V. Lounasmaa Lab, Aalto Univ School of Sci, Espoo, Finland / Brain Res Unit, O. V. Lounasmaa Lab, Aalto Univ School of Sci, Espoo, Finland 4:Inst Biomed, Physiol, Univ of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland / Inst Biomed, Physiol, Univ of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 5:生理研大脳皮質機能研心理生理 / Div Cereb Integ, Natl Inst Physiol Sci, Aichi, Japan 6:総研大院生命科学生理 / Dep Physiol Sci, The Grad Univ Adv Studies, Aichi, Japan 7:福井大高エネ研 / BIRC, Univ of Fukui, Fukui, Japan 

Timing is crucial in many aspects of our perception and behavior. Although several psychological and computational models of timing have postulated that elapsed time is represented by a population of neurons that have selectivity for specific durations, empirical evidence of this notion has been lacking. Here, using an fMRI adaptation paradigm, we present evidence of temporal tuning in the right inferior parietal lobule (rIPL) by showing that the rIPL exhibited reduction in blood-oxygenation-level-dependent signal due to adaptation when a visual stimulus of the same duration was repeatedly presented. Neural adaptation was strongest when stimuli of identical durations were repeated, and it gradually decreased as the perceptual difference between the reference and test durations increased. This tuning property was found across a broad range of subsecond durations, indicating the presence of time-representation mechanisms in the rIPL. Furthermore, adaptation was observed irrespective of the subject's attention to time, suggesting an automatic encoding mechanism of stimulus duration in the rIPL. A control experiment confirmed that repetition of a non-temporal aspect of the stimulus (i.e., shape) did not produce neural adaptation in the rIPL. Our study demonstrates, for the first time, the neural evidence of duration-tuned representations in the human brain.

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