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Thiago S Gouvêa¹, Tiago Monteiro¹, Sofia Soares¹

¹Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Lisbon, Portugal.

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Animals may use learned behavioral patterns to estimate time. Reproducible sequences in rodent behavior during timed intervals predict time perception, suggesting a link between motor patterns and interval timing.

Keywords:

choice probability decision making embodied cognition interval timing perceptual decision making time perception

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Cognitive Science

Background:

Accurate time estimation is crucial for adaptive behaviors.
The neural mechanisms of interval timing, especially over durations relevant to animal behavior, remain unclear.
Existing theories suggest interval timing may involve learning sequences of behavioral states.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if learned behavioral sequences are predictive of time estimation in rodents.
To explore the relationship between motor patterns and the perception of time intervals.
To lay the groundwork for simultaneous behavioral and neural monitoring to understand time perception.

Main Methods:

Rodents were trained on a duration categorization task.
High-speed cameras were used for continuous behavioral monitoring.
Analysis focused on the reproducibility and predictive power of behavioral sequences during timed intervals.

Main Results:

Animals developed highly reproducible behavioral sequences during the timed interval.
These behavioral sequences predicted perceptual reports of duration early in the trial.
Findings support the hypothesis that learned behavioral patterns contribute to time estimation.

Conclusions:

Learned behavioral sequences appear to play a role in how animals estimate time intervals.
This study provides evidence for a link between motor behavior and interval timing.
Future research will combine behavioral and neural monitoring to further elucidate the neural basis of time perception.