Interval timing behavior: comparative and integrative approaches introduction to the special

Abstract

The ability of animals to keep track of, remember, and act upon short time intervals has received growing scientific attention attested by the increasing number of papers published and scientific activities organized in this area of research. Arguably, one of the driving forces behind this dynamic is the fact that interval timing captures a fundamental currency, constituent of many derived quantities of critical biological significance. Thus, temporal information processing presumably interacts with many other processes that support the adaptiveness of organisms in their environment by operating on variables that are derived from time intervals.