PLoS Biology - Timing the Brain: Mental Chronometry as a Tool in Neuroscience - 0 views
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Todd Suomela on 25 Jan 09How do we relate human thought processes to measurable events in the brain? Mental chronometry, which has origins that date back more than a century, seeks to measure the time course of mental operations in the human nervous system [1]. From the late 1800s until 1950, the field was built almost entirely around a single method: measuring and comparing people's reaction times during simple cognitive tasks.