title: Clocks within Clocks: Timing by Coincidence Detection.
abstract: The many existent models of timing rely on vastly different mechanisms to track temporal information. Here we examine these differences, and identify coincidence detection in its most general form as a common mechanism that many apparently different timing models share, as well as a common mechanism of biological circadian, millisecond and interval timing. This view predicts that timing by coincidence detection is a ubiquitous phenomenon at many biological levels, explains the reports of biological timing in many brain areas, explains the role of neural noise at different time scales at both biological and theoretical levels, and provides cohesion within the timing field.
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, Dept. Psychology, Utah State University, Logan UT, USA.
authors.forename: Catalin V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Buhusi
authors.affiliation: Dept. Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
authors.forename: Sorinel A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Oprisan
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, Dept. Psychology, Utah State University, Logan UT, USA.
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buhusi