Brain Clock Research Bytes # 1: Parkinsons, schizophrenia, and temporal pattern recognition

I found time to quickly skim a number of interesting journal articles this afternoon. Check out the following research bytes:

• Wong et al. (2008), in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, present an interesting sequential model of human temporal pattern recognition.

• Yet another study (Jones et al., in press, Brain and Cognition) linking the brain clock to Parkinson's with the usual cast of neuroscience characters implicated (basal ganglia; dopamine). A snipet from the authors conclusions "the data suggest that the integrity of the basal ganglia is necessary for ‘typical’ time production in the seconds range as well as for time reproduction at shorter intervals"

• In a prior post I reviewed one of the key brain clock research articles (see right side of this blog) by Buhusi and Meck 2006), where they implicated the brain clock in a variety of mental disorders, including schizophrenia. I just skimmed another article "in press" in Brain and Cognition (see link above in prior bulleted byte), this type by Carroll et al., that suggests a deficit in auditory temporal processing precision in schizophrenics.

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