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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations

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Time perception in children: a neurodevelopmental approach.

Sylvie Droit-Volet¹

¹Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive (CNRS, UMR 6024), Université Blaise Pascal, 34 avenue Carnot, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Sylvie.DROIT-VOLET@univ-bpclermont.fr

Neuropsychologia

|September 25, 2012

Summary

Children develop an innate sense of time, with implicit and explicit time judgments evolving throughout childhood. Neural structures supporting time perception mature at different rates, explaining age-related variations in temporal judgments.

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Neuroscience
Cognitive Science

Background:

Behavioral studies indicate infants possess a basic sense of time.
Time judgments change significantly during childhood.
Implicit and explicit temporal judgments emerge with age.

Purpose of the Study:

To review behavioral studies on children's time perception.
To explore the neurobiological basis of developing time judgments.
To explain age-related variations in time perception through neural maturation.

Main Methods:

Review of behavioral studies on time perception in children.
Analysis of neurobiological models of the internal clock.
Examination of neuroimaging studies (fMRI) in children and adults.
Assessment of neuropsychological tests for cognitive capacities.

Main Results:

Evidence for a primitive sense of time in infants.
Distinct developmental trajectories for implicit and explicit time judgments.
Differential maturation rates of neural structures underlying time perception.

Conclusions:

The maturation of neural structures influences age-related changes in time perception.
Understanding these developmental changes is crucial for cognitive and neurological research.
Further fMRI and neuropsychological studies are needed in diverse child populations.